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CHRI STIAN 

SCIENCE 

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KINDRED 

SUPERSTITIONS 

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CHARLES F-WINBIGLER 



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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 



KINDRED SUPERSTITIONS 



THEIR FACTS AND FALLACIES 



REV CHARLES F. WINBIGLER, Ph. M. 



WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY 

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A sequel far different than this I had dreamed, 
But then in this life, things will go amiss ; 

Our portion allotted is often best deemed 
Some bane for a blessing — some anguish for bliss. 



NOTE. 

Numerous revisions of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy's 
book, have been issued, so that the cited pages may not 
tally with every volume which may be in circulation ; 
but the teachings in the last volume are the same as 
those in the preceding volumes. I defy any Christian 
Scientist, or Mrs. Eddy, to disprove this statement. 

AUTHOR. 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER PAGE 

Introduction, by Rev. J. Herndon Garnett 9 

I. Different Schools 13 

II. Christian Science, Unscientific and Un- 
christian 17 

III. The Teachings of " Healers " Unscriptural 

and Unreasonable 30 

IV. Origin of Christian Science 39 

V. The Teachings of Christian Science Con- 
sidered 56 

VI. A Scientific Explanation of the Cures 69 

VII. Mortal Thought and Self-Evident Propo- 
sitions 95 

VIII. Mrs. Eddy and Revelation 113 

IX. Healing and Doubting the Senses 124 

X. Objections to Christian Science 133 

XL The Tendencies of Christian Science 160 



PREFACE 



There has been considerable interest de- 
veloped in the last few years in Christian 
Science and other schools of thought that pro- 
fess to heal disease, and there are a growing 
number of people who are allying themselves 
to these teachings because they or their friends 
have been cured of imaginary or real sick- 
nesses. The same therapeutic principle runs 
through all of these various teachings, how- 
ever differently they may seem to present it. 
There is very little vital and logical connection 
between the teachings and efforts to heal. 
Especially is this so in Christian Science. The 
utilization of a great truth in all these systems 
of healing we endeavor to develop and illus- 
trate in this work, which contains the results 
of much research and original thought. 

I desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to 
A. T. Schofield, M. D., Thomson Jay Hudson, 
LL. D., H. M. Dexter, D. D., J. M. Buckley, 
D. D., The Arena, Mark Twain, L. A. Cran- 
idall, D. D., Rev. D. B. Cheney, William A. 

7, 



8 Preface. 

Purington, and many other writers for some 
suggestions, illustrations and incidents. It 
has been my purpose to give a plain, compre- 
hensive statement of the whole question as dis- 
cussed by Christian Scientists and show the 
real Therapeutic principle that is utilized in 
the effort of these different schools to heal 
disease. It has also been my desire to expose 
the fallacies of Christian Scientists and inci- 
dentally those of similar, but to a certain ex- 
tent, different schools. Justification for the 
plain language and forcible terms used will be 
found in the tendencies and teachings, es- 
pecial of Christian Science. There is but one 
desire in my heart, and that is to know the 
truth and disseminate it. 

C. F. WINBIGLER. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



INTRODUCTION,* 



"Christian Science" is thirty-two years 
old. It was discovered in January, 1866, by 
Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, President of 
the Massachusetts Metaphysical College. In 
1876 the Christian Scientist Association was 
organized, and three years later " a mind- 
healing church, without creeds, called the 
church of Christ." Of this Association of 
course Mrs. Eddy was the organizer, and of 
this church she became pastor. Ten years 
later Mrs. Eddy saw her church with an as- 
sistant pastor, her college flourishing with 
charges for tuition of over $100 per week, 
and sixty-six female and twenty-nine male 
practitioners in the United States. Colleges 
and institutions also are announced for the 
principal sections and centers of the North. 

" Christian Science " teaches that " the only 
realities are the divine mind and its ideas." 
That mortal mind ("mortal views") pro- 
duces all the organic and animal actions of 
the mortal body. It teaches that " matter and 



io Introduction. 

mortal body are the illusions of human be- 
lief." Sickness is a " dream of falsity." Sin 
is, because of a universal mental illusion and 
error. God "_is principle and is the only sub- 
stance." " Man was and is the idea of God, 
therefore, mind can never be in man." 

The following in part is a prayer offered 
for a dyspeptic, taken from a text book on 
Mind Cure, issued by the President of the New 
York School of Primitive and Practical 
Christian Science. It is too readable to be 
omitted: " Holy Reality! We believe in thee, 
that thou art everywhere present. We really 
believe it. Blessed Reality! We do not pre- 
tend to believe, think we believe, believe 
that we believe. We believe. Believing that 
thou art everywhere present, we believe that 
thou art in this patient's stomach * * * that 
thou art the sole, only Reality of that stomach. 
Heavenly, Holy Reality, we will try not to be 
such hypocrites and infidels, as every day of 
our lives to affirm our faith in thee, and then 
immediately begin to tell how sick we are, for- 
getting that thou art everything and that thou 
art not sick and therefore that nothing in this 
universe was ever sick, is now sick or can be 
sick. * * * We know. Father and Mother of 
us all, that there is no such thing as a really 
diseased stomach, that the disease is the car- 
nal mortal mind given over to the world, the 
flesh and the devil. * * * Lord help us to be- 



Introduction. n 

lieve that all evil is utterly unreal; that it is 
silly to be sick, * * * atheism and denial of 
God to say, ' I am sick.' " 

This is the " feminine fad " which my gal- 
lant friend exposes and combats in the pages 
of this work. This book, I believe, will have 
a wide reading. It is a popular treatment of a 
perplexing theme. Extensive reading and 
familiarity, not only with " Christian Science " 
but also with kindred subjects, are manifest 
throughout. The work has been well done. 
The positions taken are fair to all concerned, 
and the citations made are from standards. 

The undersigned will be grateful if a word 
from him serves to call special attention to 
the book. He can but regard it as most timely. 
This " Science," falsely so-called, is an enemy 
both to Christian truth and to Christian 
churches considered as redemptive agencies. 
To make God a principle, and to reduce sin to 
an error, is to lead men, not into heresy, I 
would say, but into the most profound and 
far-reaching untruth. 

J. HERNDON GARNET.' 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, 



CHAPTER I* 

DIFFERENT SCHOOLS. 

'Christian Science. Mrs. Mary Mason Baker 
Glover Patterson Eddy claims to be the dis- 
coverer of this remarkable system of teach- 
ing, in which there is a denial of matter and 
Sickness as " delusions of mortal mind." 
" Divine Mind " is all that really exists and 
it cannot get sick. The system is Idealistic 
Pantheism. The form of treatment is audible 
or silent mental suggestion denying " sickness, 
disease and death," and affirming health, ease 
and life. There are several different schools, 
the leading one being the Eddyites. 

Faith Healing. This system of teaching is 
very old and has had many followers among 
Catholics and Protestants. Rev. W. E. 
Boardman, who had a " Nursery of Faith " 
in the north of London which he called " Beth- 
ishan"; Dr. Charles Cullis of Boston, who 

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14 Christian Science. 

"had a horq,e for consumptives; Rev. r K. B. 
Simpson of New York, who has every Fri- 
day meetings for healing the siek; Rev. John 
A. Dowie of Chicago, who has a great Zion 
hotel, are the chief exponents of this school. 
The last two are living and make healing by 
faith and prayer and often anointing with 
oil a prominent feature of their public teach- 
ings and practice. They do not deny the ex- 
istence of sickness and disease, but claim that 
they are of the devil. Aside from anointing 
with oil and praying they look upon the use 
of medicines as sinful and the manifestation of 
unbelief. There are some differences in the 
teachings of some of the prominent leaders, 
but they can be properly included under the 
general appellation of Faith Healers. 

Mind and Mental Cure or Healing. The 
general claim made by this school is that mind 
causes all disease, and, therefore, mind alone 
can cure disease. The practitioners are per- 
mitted to give " careful nursing " and exercise 
their common sense in the use of natural 
means, such as water, food, air and exercise, 
•etc. There is much sound reason in their 
claim, but that mind produces all disease can- 
not be proven. They do not and cannot cure 
all diseases. 

Ideal Suggestion. This school is repre- 
sented by Henry Wood, Dr. Dresser and Ralph 
Waldo Trine. They do notjigree in aU jthe 



Different Schools. 13 

essentials of their teachings, but generally 
there is enough in which they agree to class 
them together. They believe that mind is the 
only real thing in this universe and that matter 
is illusive if not an illusion. Ideal sugges- 
tion, they claim, will keep the mind supreme 
over feelings and everything else that seems 
lo exist. 

Murphyism and Absent Treatment. These 
are related by virtue of the fact that sugges- 
tion is the leading feature of both. The claim 
is made that thought can travel and affect an- 
other who is in a passive, expectant attitude 
and thus receive healing, and by aid of sug- 
gestions, given by letter or printed sheet, fol- 
lowed by the afflicted, disease is removed and 
health restored. Murphy, claims to have 
great magnetic power. 

There are other phases of these leading 
schools, practised largely by charlatans and 
quacks, for the money which they thus easily 
get from gullible and credulous people. The 
last named school has much of the spirit of 
charlatanry in it. 

These systems have one truth of value 
running through them which I shall present 
in a succeeding chapter, and their agreements 
and disagreements can be presented in a few 
sentences. 

All, except Faith Healing, agree in the su- 
premacy of mind, in the influence of the mind 



16 Christian Science. 

on the body, in denying disease and in affirm- 
ing health. Faith Healing affirms disease and 
sickness as actual facts and asserts that they 
can be cured by Scriptural meafrs, such as 
anointing with oil and the prayer of faith. 
Some of the other leading systems affirm the 
unreality of disease and sickness, and affirm the 
presence of health. It is not the purpose here 
to discuss these systems further, but only to 
present them thus briefly, so that the reader 
may intelligently follow us in the discussion. 



Unscientific and Unchristian. 17 



CHAPTER II. 

UNSCIENTIFIC AND UNCHRISTIAN. 

Some one was kind enough to send me a 
copy of The Christian Science Journal recently, 
in which is an article on " Opposition to 
Christian Science " underscored with pencil 
lines. The article is headed with Gamaliel's 
advice to the persons who were opposing and 
persecuting the apostles. If any one will take 
the trouble to look at the passage of Scripture 
cited (Acts 5: 34-42), he will probably find 
something very instructive. Gamaliel speaks 
of different persons, and it is very probable 
that this so-called Christian Science is a rep- 
resentative of Theudas, "giving himself out 
to be somebody," who was afterwards de- 
stroyed and whose followers were dispersed 
and came to naught, and were left to follow 
some other mvstical vision or visionary; or it 
may represent "Judas of Galilee," "who 
drew away people after him," who " also per- 
ished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were 
scattered abroad." It is more likely that this 
late religious fad represents and is represented 

3 



18 Christian Science. 

by Theudas and Judas, than that the apostles 
are the representatives of this mongrel, un- 
scientific, Buddhistic teaching. I infer this 
from its teachings and its fruits. The apostles, 
according to Acts 5 : 42, " ceased not to teach 
and preach Jesus as the Christ;" (not "the 
principle of the man Jesus ") according to this 
article under review. 

It is my intention to fairly represent the 
teachings of Christian Science and give cita- 
tions and applications of these teachings, so 
that any one can see what he is accepting when 
he takes this school of thought to be the ex- 
ponent of his r religious faith and practice. 
There is a great truth in " Christian Science," 
but unfortunately it is buried under false teach- 
ing, which must be removed, before that truth 
can stand out prominently to bless the world. 

The system of teaching called " Christian 
Science " is a piratical system and unfortu- 
nately it is " neither Christian nor science." 
If it confined itself in trying to cure disease 
there would be no necessity for this or any 
other review of its pretensions and teachings, 
but it claims to teach theology — the only true 
theology, as well as science and Christianity. 
Its very pretensions, much more its teachings, 
call for an examination at least. 

There is a reason why the "clergy, press 
and people will not have this false teaching to 
rule over them." The reason or reasons will 



Unscientific and Unchristian. 19 

be given in this review of the article referred 
to above as well as of Christian Science in 
general as taught by Mrs. Eddy, et al. 

" The advent of Christian Science meets 
the same opposition and persecution as did the 
advent of the teachings of Jesus, the Christ." 
What an infinite difference there is between 
those teachings. To bring down Christ's teach- 
ings into such a comparison is very much like 
comparing a magnificent landscape to a ma- 
larial swamp. Of course reasonable, healthy 
people would oppose the latter because it pro- 
duces sickness and death, whilst some persons 
perhaps could not appreciate the former be- 
cause their aesthetic natures were not devel- 
oped. The causes of opposition are very dif- 
ferent in respect to Christ's teachings and the 
teachings of Christian Science. 

The language used by Mrs. Eddy, the 
mother of Christian Science, and her followers, 
is so very nebulous, ambiguous and mystical 
that the ideas play " hide and seek " with you. 
Language and ideas to them are what objects 
were in the quick nimble hands of Herrmann, 
the magician. Now they are here — now they 
are not. This is a remarkable feature about 
Mrs. Eddy's use of language. There is also 
a learned profundity that makes her thoughts 
as clear as a fog-bank. Is it any wonder that 
scholars and scientists declare her teachings 
unscientific? Is it astonishing that men who 



20 Christian Science. 

know something of the teachings of Christian- 
ity and also of the teachings of Mrs. Eddy, 
pronounce her teachings not Christian? The 
reader, we think, will also pronounce them un- 
christian as he sees them in citation further 
along. 

Christian Science is unscientific because it 
practically takes issue with Science — its true 
meaning and its methods. Prof. Huxley says : 
" By Science I understand all knowledge which 
rests upon evidence and reasoning." This is 
a true, clear and comprehensive definition of 
science. It is the sum total of our knowledge 
which comes to us through the senses and our 
reason. If something tangible, material can- 
not affect the senses through which we are re- 
lated to the external world, then we have no 
place for evidence and reasoning, which are 
the two channels of scientific investigation, 
and, therefore, we can have no basis for rea- 
soning. The Christian Scientist would be just 
as bad off in this regard as anybody else. Hence 
the denial of these foundations of scientific 
knowledge leaves the teachings of Christian 
Science also in the condition of being unscien- 
tific. 

Mrs. Eddy's dictum that " matter will be 
finally proven to be nothing but a mortal illu- 
sion, wholly inadequate to affect man through 
its supposed organic action or existence" 
would destroy her own process of reasoning 



Unscientific and Unchristian. 21 

and ability of receiving and giving testimony, 
as well as the foundations of science. Her 
effort to heal people and the testimony of the 
results, which she is so quick to receive and 
utilize, would all be impossible. 

Berkeley taught that a material world does 
not exist. Mrs. Eddy teaches that matter 
does not exist. Then what are our scientists 
investigating, and what have they been seek- 
ing for all these years? What did Bacon, 
Newton, Galileo, Herschel, Faraday, Huxley, 
and multitudes of others investigate, and 
what are the laws which they claim to have 
discovered and announced? What are the in- 
struments used by them and by others — micro- 
scopes, telescopes, spectroscopes, hammers, 
scalpels, knives, etc., etc. ? What are they used 
upon and what are they, in themselves, if mat- 
ter is nothing but " mortal illusions " ? The 
experience of all sensible, normally organized 
and reasonable people is against Mrs. Eddy's 
statement that matter does not exist. The 
universal experience and action of mankind 
are opposed to that statement. It is needless, 
in view of these facts, to farther prove that 
Mrs. Eddy's declaration, which is the funda- 
mental thought of her teaching, is unscientific. 
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus — False in 
one (point), false in all. 

Christian Science is not only unscientific, 
but it is also unchristian. A Christian is a be- 



22 Christian Science. 

liever in and a follower of tjhe Lord Jesus 
Christ. He believes that Christ is God mani- 
fest in the flesh (i Tim. 3: 16; John 1: 1-5, 
14). Other Scriptures affirm the same things. 
Here is a solemn warning to which Mrs. 
Eddy and others would do well to give heed 
(1 John 4:1-3.) " Beloved, believe not every 
spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of 
God; because many false prophets are gone 
out into the world. Hereby know ye the spirit 
of God : every spirit that confesseth that Jesus 
Christ is come in the flesh is of God : and 
every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus 
Christ is come in the flesh is not of God." Had 
Mrs. Eddy read the Scriptures honestly she 
never would have said : " God cannot become 
finite and so be limited within material 
bounds." How does she know all this ? Paul 
says : " Let this mind be in you, which was 
also in Christ Jesus : who being in the form 
of God thought it not robbery to be equal with 
God: but made himself of no reputation and 
took upon him the form of a servant and was 
made in the likeness of man, and being in 
fashion as a man, he humbled (emptied) him- 
self, and became obedient unto death, even the 
death of the cross." This statement and Mrs. 
Eddy's does not agree. Who revealed to Mrs. 
Eddy that God cannot limit himself and mani- 
fest himself as man or in the flesh? The 
Bible declares that he has done so, and Science 



Unscientific and Unchristian. 23 

and Health says he has not done so. Which 
one are we to accept? I will take the Bible. 
When Mrs. Eddy says that " God is not a per- 
son who can say I " or be addressed as 
" Thou " she practically denies that Christ is 
divine and condemns his prayer in John xvii. 
She also denies that Christ is God manifest in 
the flesh, or in a physical body, when she says : 
" That God is a corporeal being nobody can 
affirm." On pages 377, 378 and 393 of Sci- 
ence and Health, Mrs. Eddy positively and re- 
peatedly denies the existence of a personal 
God. Her teachings concerning Jesus are that 
he is a man, while Christ is the divine principle 
of the man. This divine principle, however, 
is common to all men, according to her system. 
Hence, Jesus is simply and solely a perfect 
man, yet no more perfect than is every man in 
his essential being. The only difference is he 
exemplified the divine principle more fully 
than others in his life. This is a most refined 
and subtle denial of the true divinity of our 
Saviour. (Ibid., pp. 408, 501, 530.) 

A Christian believes in Christ's divinity — 
and the central doctrine of Christianity is the 
doctrine of God's incarnation in Christ, but 
Christian Science does not believe this, and 
therefore it is unchristian. 

A Christian also believes that Jesus Christ 
made atonement for sin so that " whosoever 
believeth in him shall not perish, but have 



24 Christian Science. 

eternal life." " Who his own self bear our 
sins in his body on the tree." The doctrine, 
if not the method of the atonement is presented 
throughout the Scriptures. Christians believe 
and accept it. Mrs. Eddy argues against the 
atonement. " The material blood of Jesus," 
she says, " was no more efficacious to cleanse 
from sin, when it was shed upon the accursed 
tree, than when it was flowing in his veins as 
he went daily about his Father's business." 
(S. and H., p. 509.) She either does not 
know what the Christian teaching is concern- 
ing the blood, or else intentionally tries to de- 
ceive the reader. If the former, then she is 
ignorant and ought to try and inform herself. 
If the latter, then she is acting the part of a 
mountebank and a hypocrite. The " blood- 
shed " stands in Scripture for life offered. 
Let her take the Scripture idea, which is the 
Christian idea of atonement, and substitute 
it in the quoted sentence above and she will 
see, as will any one else who will read it with 
this substitution, that Mrs. Eddy utterly denies 
the atonement of the Lord Jesus for sin. 

Christian Science also denies the necessity 
and experience of the new birth (John 3 : 
1-16). " Man is spiritual and perfect — hence 
the real man cannot depart from holiness. 
Nor can God, by whom man was evolved, en- 
gender the capacity or freedom to sin." 
'*' Evil is an illusion, and error, and has no 



Unscientific and Unchristian. 25 

real basis. It is a false belief." Where is the 
necessity for the new birth, a leading Chris- 
tian doctrine, if these things are true? The 
ordinances which Jesus as Lord commands are 
abrogated and many of the teachings of Christ 
are practically and theoretically denied, and in 
these respects Christian Science is unchristian. 
I shall probably have more to say about some 
of these things farther along. 

The truth of the matter is that Mrs. Eddy T 
instead of 3iscovering the principles advocated 
in her book on Science and Health, the Chris- 
tian Science Bible, has gathered them from 
Dr. Ouimby, Berkeley, Transcendentalism, 
Pantheism, Buddhism, Brahmanism and 
Idealism. Around and through this combina- 
tion she has woven some texts of Scripture, 
mystically interpreted. Any one taking the 
time and pains can easily verify these state- 
ments. Yet she claims to be the original dis- 
coverer of these principles ! Truthfulness 
ought, at least, to be one of the fundamental 
principles of a teacher of science as well as of 
Christianity. 

The author of this article under review, as 
well as Mrs. Eddy, talks about " demonstrat- 
ing God " and " understanding " Him. This 
is one of their cardinal principles. " God is to 
be understood and demonstrated instead of be- 
lieved and feared" (or loved?). See Science 
and Health, page 407. No man, according to 



26 Christian Science. 

God's word, hath seen God at any time, cannot 
by searching find Him out, and only they who 
fear and love him can know him. Yet ac- 
cording to Mrs. Eddy he is not to be " be- 
lieved and feared." 

Mrs. Eddy does not take any pains what- 
ever to tell us what she means by " under- 
stand and demonstrate." 

I accept the statement that " the teachings 
of Jesus meet every human (spiritual) need." 
Then what is the necessity for the existence of 
Christian Science? There is a great differ- 
ence, however, between accepting Christ's 
teachings and practising them, a great differ- 
ence between believing his words and trust- 
ing in him as our Saviour. When I receive 
him I receive also eternal life, but I may be- 
lieve his words and yet not have this life. 
Eternal life is something that I receive in 
Christ because he has eternal life in himself. 
But Christian Scientists do not believe this, 
for they believe Jesus was only a man, nothing 
more— he was God as any other man is God 
and not in any other sense. Mrs. Eddy even 
claims that his death was caused by animal 
magnetism. (S. and H., p. 516.) These 
are some of the teachings of so-called " Chris- 
tian Science." 

Then the writer quotes the latter part of the 
sixteenth chapter of Mark as a divine con- 
firmation of what Christian Science teaches. 



Unscientific and Unchristian. 27 

There is but one serious difficulty about using 
that Scripture as a proof of their teaching, 
viz. : that it is not found in the oldest manu- 
scripts, and other manuscripts give a different 
ending entirely to that chapter. It is doubt- 
less an interpolation. What becomes of the 
five — especially of four — of the commands in 
that passage as indicated by the writer, viz. : 
" Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the 
dead, cast out devils " ? 

Excepting the apostles and one other person 
we have no accredited history of Christians 
casting out demons (evil thoughts as Chris- 
tian Scientists unwarrantably call them) and 
raising the dead. There are only two cases 
where the apostles raised the dead according 
to the record. 

To adduce what Christ says, " Verily, verily, 
I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the 
works I do shall he do also ; and greater works 
than these shall he do " as confirmation of the 
statements and works of Christian Scientists 
is to say the least illogical, and to say the most, 
arrant nonsense. " Greater works " has refer- 
ence to quantity rather than to quality. The 
supreme object of Christ's coming into the 
world was to seek and to save the lost," and to 
continue that work he sent forth his apostles, 
who were to preach and disciple the people. 
The miracles of raising the dead, healing the 
sick, etc., were incidental to his chief work. 



28 Christian Science. 

So were they also incidental to the chief work 
of the apostles who were endowed with ex- 
traordinary gifts, but whose supreme mission 
was to preach the Gospel and lead souls to 
Christ. Hence they did " greater works " 
than Christ, for they led thousands of people 
into the liberty of salvation, whereas he only 
gathered a comparatively meager number. 
Their works were " greater " in quantity but 
not in quality. To infer that all believers 
can do what the apostles did is not logical to 
say the least. The circumstances are different 
between the present and the time in which they 
lived. We have the complete truth of God's 
word ; we have facilities, appliances, etc., which 
they did not have. In fact there is no com- 
parison between the peoples, conditions and 
circumstances of the apostles' time and ours. 
The promise is nowhere given in the Bible to 
believers, the apostles excepted, that they 
should have power over " sin, sickness and 
death " in the sense in which Christian Scien- 
tists use that phrase. 

The writer says: "Evil in its manifold 
forms presents a problem to the world, not 
lending itself to easy solution." I thought 
there was no " evil " ? But then it is not 
good to make too many suggestions. 

The failure of " professing disciples of 
Christ " to cure disease and bring back the 
dead is referred to as a weakness growing out 



Unscientific and Unchristian. 29 

of a " fundamental error " which lies at the 
root of human helplessness. I fear the weak- 
ness as well as the " error " will continue to 
exist even after so-called Christian Science has 
given its message and departed to the " land of 
illusions." 

Then the claim is set up that " the Science 
of Being " was " discovered by one chosen of 
God to lead his children from sense to soul; 
from the bondage of sin, sickness and death to 
the eternal freedom of life, truth and love." 
A fine sounding phrase and promise with a 
peculiar application. In another chapter we 
shall consider and discuss this more at length. 
One conclusion has been reached thus far, viz. : 
that Christian Science is unscientific and un- 
christian. 



30 Christian Science. 



CHAPTER III. 

TEACHINGS OF " HEALERS " UNSCRIPTURAL 
AND UNREASONABLE. 

Jesus the Christ was not subject to the limi- 
tations which have been manifested in the mod- 
ern healers. He " healed all manner of dis- 
ease, and all manner of sickness." " They 
brought unto him all that were sick, holden of 
divers diseases and torments, possessed with 
devils, and those that were epileptic and pal- 
sied; and he healed them." His message to 
John the Baptist was, " The blind receive their 
sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed 
and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up." 
These things were all done by the word and 
touch of his power instantly. The people did 
not have to return for several treatments pay- 
ing so much for each one. The process of re- 
covery was not protracted but was instant. 
The very last miracle that Jesus wrought be- 
fore his death, the putting back and healing of 
the ear of the servant of the high priest, which 
Peter had cut off with his sword, could not 
have been done by Christian Scientists or 



Teachings of "Healers" Unscriptural. 31 

" Healers "of any kind. For these people to 
claim Christ as an example for themselves to 
follow and an interpolated Scripture (Mark 
16: 9-20) as their authority is to say the least 
very illogical and weak reasoning. Then, too, 
why do they either ask or expect money for 
their treatments? They never heard of Jesus 
asking pay for his works. Jesus healed all 
diseases, why cannot they heal all manner of 
sicknesses ? We shall find out why when we 
come to the secret of their cure and their fail- 
ures to cure. There is not a record of any 
failures on the part of Christ or of the apostles 
after the ascension to cure any cases brought 
to them. The Modern Healers do nothing 
more wonderful than Indians, pagans, Spirit- 
ists, hypnotists. They cannot do what Christ 
and the apostles did. Their cures can be dupli- 
cated by hundreds of cases in Suggestive 
Therapeutics, therefore they are not super- 
natural. 

We believe in a God who can hear and an- 
swer prayer, in One whose Providence is uni- 
versal and whose might is unlimited, but one 
who works ordinarily through the forces of 
nature and established laws. Prayer has a 
very important place in God's plan of govern- 
ment. We are not told in the Word of God 
that prayer will always secure the recovery of 
the sick. Paul prayed that "the thorn in 
the flesh " should be removed, but the answer 



32 Christian Science. 

that came back was, " My grace is sufficient for 
thee." The phrase in the New Testament that 
has a special significance is, " According to his 
will." If God wills to use secondary causes 
through which to effect cures and bring bless- 
ings to man, no one has a right to say nay. 
If the prayer of faith leads one who is afflicted 
to accept a suggested promise of God and he 
recovers, it is according to his will. But we 
have no right, neither is it reasonable to ex- 
pect that any human being can know what 
God's will is for individual cases of sickness. 
We can bank on the words that "all things 
work together for good to them that love 
God," and it may be for the purpose of chas- 
tisement, discipline or for God's glory that 
certain things are permitted in some lives. 
The lives of Job and Paul, Timothy, Trophi- 
mus and Epaphrodites in the Scripture record 
illustrate this. It may be God's will to use a 
skilful physician or surgeon, or the experience 
of a nurse or the counsel of Christians and 
their prayers. He is the wise and prudent man 
who prayerfully follows God's leadings in his 
Providences. 

Many healers are calling upon God's power, 
irrespective of cause and effect, as though it 
were somthing locked up which will surely be 
displayed under the key of their touch and 
prayer. Too often, as in the case of Dowie 
and others whose names might be mentioned, 



Teachings of "Healers" Unscriptural. 33 



of superstition. This usually is dangerous in 
its final outcome. God is not limited in the 
manner of answering prayer and " healers " 
have not a copyright as to God's definite plan 
of working. They ought to remember that the 
Scriptures do not teach that God works accord- 
ing to their will but " according to His Will." 
The Word gives many cases of the answers to 
prayer but very few if any, excepting through 
means that God has used. In fact we do not 
recall an exception to this rule. The discus- 
sions, boastings and claims of many " healers " 
are disgusting, and one would almost think they 
were the specially chosen, favored sons of the 
Most High, and were admitted into his secret 
counsels and were made the special Vicars to 
dispense healing and health to those especially 
who will do as they say and pay what they can. 
Some of them may be very sweet spirited and 
humble, but in all with whom I am acquainted 
and have heard speak on this subject, there is 
the under-tone of self-confidence and asser- 
tion of peculiar power. Naturally the most 
of them would be good hypnotists. 

All " healers " have their own particular 
theory as to how a cure is effected, and these 
theories often contradict- one another. The one 
set claims that the Virgin Mary gives efficacy 
to the water of Lourdes ; another coterie claims 
that they cure through spirits that have 
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34. Christian Science. 

returned; another class claims that the 
prayer of faith brings cures; the Mor- 
mon elders and 'apostles of Brigham Young 
claim to work miraculous cures; others claim 
that the cures are wrought by magnetism or 
mesmerism; another set claims that cures are 
wrought by a process of " vitalization " ; 
Schlatter claimed to cure by the possession of 
supernatural power; Christian Science claims 
to bring in the power of "Divine Mind " which 
" chemicalizes " mortal thought and thus gets 
rid of disease ; another class has large printed 
suggestions which the afflicted are to intently 
look at and think about in silence and thus 
regain lost health. The theories may be at 
variance and arc, but there is one principle 
practised, it may be ignorantly, by all of them, 
that is effective frequently in bringing relief to 
the afflicted. Dowie may and does condemn 
Christian Science, and conversely is condemned 
by it, but they practise essentially the same 
principle. 

In other w r ords each class has been success- 
ful in curing some diseases and failed to cure 
others. Their theories do not explain their 
successes or failures. The principle of cure was 
ignorantly practised by them and did the work 
despite their illogical, contradictory and un- 
reasonable theories. 

Valentine Greatrakes — a quack and charla- 
tan — performed more supposed miracles than 



Teachings of " Healers" Unscriptural. 35 

any " healer " of our day. Dr. Newton, an- 
other man of strong individuality, effected 
many remarkable cures without medicine and 
had a theory that did not explain how the 
cures were effected but reaped, as did Great- 
rakes, a large fortune from his healings. 
Dowie, of Chicago, has a great number 
of crutches and other paraphernalia that 
he claims he took from afflicted people 
who have been cured through the prayer 
of faith. He also has a large Zion hostelry 
into which the afflicted are taken and 
cared for, as often the cures are not instantly 
effected. A good, big price is charged for 
attendance and prayers also. What I desire 
to make plain is that the theory that one holds, 
and the principle which one practises in order 
to heal, may have no logical connection at all. 
If the science of the principle can be discovered 
and it applies to all cases of healing, then the 
theories may be laid aside as useless. This is 
an axiomatic proposition. 

It shall be my purpose, however, to take up 
the theory and teachings of Christian Science, 
particularly and incidentally those of some 
other " healers," and show their fallacies and 
discuss at some length the real principle by 
which cures are effected. 

It is scarcely necessary to say that there are 
cases in which surgery is needful, and no 
" healers '*' can do anything for such cases, 



36 Christian Science. 

neither can they restore lost members. For 
instance, cases of gangrene, deep cuts into 
the body in which arteries are injured. They 
cannot restore an eye, a tooth, a finger, a limb, 
or any member severed from the body. 

The tendency of the teachings of faith heal- 
ing and Christian Science is to exalt that which 
is incidental in Scripture teachings and mini- 
mize that which is really essential. As a result 
other delusions naturally follow. Christian- 
ity never presented itself to be tested as a 
cure-all for bodily sicknesses. The essential 
test is moral and spiritual regeneration and 
transformation of individuals and nations. 
On this test it stands and will stand. Hence 
it is a narrow and a paltry and unreasonable 
view to take when it is made a therapeutic 
agent for the cure of bodily ailments. Some 
time ago a person claimed to have a revelation 
from the Holy Spirit that a certain sick friend 
would get well in a day or two. He an- 
nounced the revelation, which he had received, 
in a meeting. Inside of four days, death had 
come and brought relief to the afflicted one. 
He was mistaken about his revelation. Many 
similar cases might be cited, but space forbids. 
It might be well to refer to one Scripture 
quoted by some " healers " in defense of their 
practice. It is James 5: 14- Great emphasis 
is put on the prayer of faith by these people, 
but little or no emphasis on the " anointing 



Teachings of "Healers" Unscriptural. 37 

with oil." This was a custom in the East 
among people who had the care of the sick. Oil 
was considered a very effective medicine. In 
Mark 6: 13, we are told that the twelve " an- 
ointed with oil many that were sick, and healed 
them." After people would take a bath they 
were rubbed with oil and it was refreshing and 
strengthening. This is another proof that 
God uses means through which to cure the 
afflicted. He could cure without the use of 
" means," but that he does so is not settled. 
That Jesus Christ wrought miracles all Chris- 
tians believe, but that " healers " can do so we 
are justified in doubting. 

" Faith Healers " have a very distinct creed 
that may be summarized as follows : 

" All disease is the direct result of sin." 

" All disease can be cured by faith." 

" All the sick who believe are healed, though 
they may seem to be sick." 

" All cures are miracles." 

Is " all disease the direct result of sin " ? 
Look at John, ninth chapter, second and third 
verses. " Master," asked the disciples, " who 
did sin, this man or his parents, that he should 
be born blind ? " Jesus answered, " Neither did 
that man sin nor his parents; but that the 
Works of God should be made manifest in 
him." 

Who is right, the " Healer " or Jesus ? 
What awful sinners Job and Paul must have 



38 Christian Science. 

been if the " Healer " is right. John Milton, 
David Brainard, Robert Hall and multitudes 
of other men who professed to be Christians 
must have been great sinners, for they were 
great sufferers. The missionaries who become 
sick with fevers and die must be great sinners. 
Such teaching is cruel, irrational and unscrip- 
tural. 

A logical deduction from the above state- 
ment is that suffering and sickness is the meas- 
ure of one's sin, and health the measure of 
one's virtue and faith. You say that is not 
true. No, it is not, and the people who thus 
argue are subject to other delusions almost 
equally as great. It is needless to waste the 
time of the writer or reader to take up and 
show the fallacies of the other articles of their 
creed. Their teachings are fallacious, un- 
scriptural, and unreasonable. 



Origin of Christian Science. 39 



CHAPTER IV. 

ORIGIN OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

" If through scientific demonstration Chris- 
tian Science proves that Divine Mind or God 
is supreme; that good is the only reality," 
that evil is non-existent, " why does the world, 
and particularly the clergy professing to be 
disciples of Christ, combat its teachings with 
such vigor ? " Because these things are not 
demonstrated and cannot be. It was well that 
the writer commenced with an " If." That 
little crooked word is still in the way of their 
demonstration ! 

Mrs. Eddy and her followers mix up histori- 
cal and prophetical Scriptures in a, marvel- 
ously unscientific manner and then call that 
way of stating things the " March Trium- 
phant " of " Divine Science." " Christian 
Science is founded on the spiritually scientific 
meaning of Scripture; wherein God is recog- 
nized as the only Creator (this is conceded), 
evil as an unreality and the spiritual creation 
as the only work of the hand of God ; hence 
(conclusion) the practical demonstration of 
Christianity found to-day in Christian Science." 



40 Christian Science. 

If this is not logic, theology, science, phi- 
losophy and common sense, mixed, run mad, 
then our power of discrimination is at serious 
fault. The only thing that makes that quoted 
sentence even sound plausible, when read, is 
the little truth it contains and that which makes 
it ridiculous is the vast amount of fallacy. 

Here is another cardinal principle of Chris- 
tian Science — " God is the Principle of the 
Universe." What does this mean? It means 
that God has no personal existence separate 
and apart from his works, i. e., God is not a 
personal being at all. Here is what the writer 
says : It is only an echo of Mrs. Eddy's vapor- 
izings — " We think of God no longer as a dis- 
tinct personality, but as everpresent and im- 
personal Life, Truth, Love, Divine Mind." 
Here is a sample of Oriental Pantheism as well 
as of Modern Transcendentalism ; Man's free- 
dom is also denied, his natural immortality 
affirmed, and his future spiritual subsidence 
into the great universal all-mind is declared. 
This sounds much like the teachings of 
Theosophy. But Mrs. Eddy claims to have 
discovered these great principles and hence it 
would be wrong to accuse her of stealing them 
from Idealism, Pantheism, Theosophy, etc. 

Man's material origin and his material 
bodily existence are denied. He is said to be 
the reflection of God — we know not how — 
hence he is now perfect and immortal. " Jesus 



Origin of Christian Science. 41 

commanded all to be perfect as their Father in 
Heaven is perfect; thus clearly showing that 
man always has been perfect." O Temporal 
O Mores! 

We further learn that " God is not resident 
in his Idea/ Man," yet man was never evolved 
or created, but is " very God of very God." 
That is, he is the Divine idea ; or, he is God ex- 
pressing himself. His essence is the same. 
He is spirit, since there is nothing but spirit. 
There cannot be men; there is only man, and 
since there is only God, man must be God. 
Spinoza wrote, " When we say man perceives 
this or that, it is only that God has such or 
such ideas." Hegel said, " Man is both the 
product and the producer of the world, the 
seer and the sight; he is the Absolute Spirit, 
the concrete expression of God." In corre- 
spondence with this manner of thinking we see 
Mrs. Eddy constantly using the singular num- 
ber — man, and never the plural — men, in her 
book Science and Health. She says, " Man 
was and is the idea of God, — the conception of 
Eternal Mind, co-existent and co-eternal with 
it. Man was forever in God, or Mind. There- 
fore Mind can never be in man." Man was 
forever in God, God can never be in man. How 
clear ! How logical ! How like the contra- 
dictions of Idealism and Pantheism as well as 
of Idealistic Pantheism. Yet Mrs. Eddy has 
discovered these great principles! 



42 Christian Science. 

This is only one of many contradictions 
which may be found in the writings of Mrs. 
Eddy and her followers. Let me say in this 
connection that if any person claiming- to have 
reason would contradict himself as these er- 
ratic, visionary and scientific Christians do in 
their writings, we should attribute such con- 
tradictions either to lack of thinking ability or 
else to ignorance. 

The writer says, " Woman gave to the 
world the spiritual idea, Jesus the Christ 
clothed somewhat with materiality." Yet 
these people claim that there is no matter ! But 
then we must not pay any attention to little 
contradictions like these. 

The same unanswerable arguments for the 
existence and reality of matter still stand, al- 
though Berkeley and Mrs. Eddy may declare 
otherwise. (Excuse me, out of politeness I 
should have placed Mrs. Eddy's name first, as 
Berkeley somehow — perhaps in a transmigra- 
tion state — may have copied from her as she 
has discovered these things. ) ( See Science and 
Health, pp. 6-8, n, 13, 150.) The latest as 
well as the truest philosophy admits that there 
is a material and an immaterial or spiritual 
existence. It is unnecessary that I should 
enter into a discussion of this generally, if not 
universally accepted proposition. However, 
it may be well for me to say one or two things 



Origin of Christian Science. 43 

in this connection that may render clearer some 
things which I desire to say later on. 

In philosophy all consciousness involves 
'duality. The things considered are different in 
kind, viz. : matter and spirit. To accept the 
true or real existence of one and deny the ex- 
istence of the other, is to falsify the plainest 
and most reasonable facts. Yet in the face of 
the consequences of such a denial, some philos- 
ophers have tried to build a unified scheme of 
knowledge or philosophy on one of these two 
hypotheses, viz., that all is matter or all is 
spirit. As a result we have Idealism, in which 
everything is declared to be spirit, or material- 
ism, in which everything is declared to be mat- 
ter, or else Absolute Identity in which matter 
and spirit are considered but forms or manifes- 
tation of one substance, a kind of substantia 
una et unica. Neither of these systems is 
plausible, much less reasonable, only as the 
plainest facts of existence are denied. It is 
scarcely necessary for me to say that no philos- 
ophy can be true which denies the most pal- 
pable facts. When the facts of consciousness 
are denied it is impossible to have a safe, per- 
manent and true philosophy. To reach seem- 
ing unity at the expense of truth and facts is 
very unwise, for such a course of procedure 
must soon be reversed to the discomfiture of its 
advocates and believers. To leave out half 
the facts of consciousness by denying that 



44 Christian Science. 

mind and matter are distinct from each other, 
is to have seeming unity at the sacrifice of all 
true knowledge and philosophy. The solution 
of the great problem of this universe in this 
way reminds me of the old story of the can- 
nibal chief, who presented himself to a mis- 
sionary for baptism. The missionary informed 
him that he would have to give up polygamy 
by giving up his second wife. When the mis- 
sionary returned to that place to preach the 
chief met him again for baptism. The mis- 
sionary asked him what he did with his wife. 
He said, "Me eat her!" In this science of 
Mrs. Eddy's we find that mind or spirit has 
eaten up matter so we have only spirit left. 

A monistic hypothesis leads to some form 
of Pantheism or Materialism, and neither of 
these systems can fully and truly incorporate 
all the facts of consciousness and reality. 

The denial of the existence of matter did 
not originate with Mrs. Eddy despite her claim 
to have discovered this and other principles 
in 1866. A distinguished woman from India 
said publicly in our country not long ago: 
" This teaching of Mrs. Eddy is not new ; it has 
been taught in my country for four thousand 
years, and it has been the curse of millions of 
my countrymen." Brahmanism taught the 
fundamental doctrines of Christian Science. 
Any one at all conversant with Brahmanism 
the oldest philosophy, and Christian Science, 



Origin of Christian Science. 45 

the medley of philosophy, can see that the 
latter has wittingly or unknowingly copied 
some of the principles of the former. They 
both deny that matter really exists. Almost 
the exact words which Mrs. Eddy uses may be 
found in a translation of a Vedic poem. The 
" Bhagavad Gita," Chapter 2, Verse 15, says, 
" The only real existence is eternal existence, 
that of spirit. Matter does not really exist; 
but is merely the production of Maya, the 
mystic power by which the Supreme Being has 
created an illusive and temporary matter which 
seems to exist, and does not really do so. There 
is then no real existence for matter, nor non- 
existence for Spirit which alone really exists." 
This is a clearer statement than the one Mrs. 
Eddy gives for the non-existence of matter. 
If she had copied this instead of trying to 
give part of it and adding her unreasonable 
paraphrase there would have been something of 
reasonableness at least. 

Another particular in which these two sys- 
tems agree is in the identification of man's 
life and soul with God, and therefore making 
man divine. 

A further agreement may be found in the 
denial of actual pain and death. 

Sin and imperfection are also denied by 
both. It would be interesting to elaborate 
these points of agreement, but in a brief work 
of this kind it is not best to do so. I desire 



46 Christian Science. 

nevertheless to call attention to Davies' 
translation of the " Bhagavad Gita " and es- 
pecially to the introduction, in which any in- 
telligent reader will find much that has a re- 
semblance to Christian Science as taught by 
Mrs. Eddy in her Science and Health. Brah- 
manism did not copy from Mrs. Eddy, did 
Mrs. Eddy copy from the teachings of Brah- 
manism ? Mrs. Eddy probably knows very lit- 
tle of that ancient teaching directly, but some 
of the principles have come to her in one form 
and another and she has simply used them 
without giving credit. She has been quite an 
extensive borrower from many sources. Boston 
has been so very ready to accept any new teach- 
ing so that Brahmanism, Pantheism, Tran- 
scendentalism, and many other isms and a 
modification of them as well has found con- 
genial soil in which to grow in profuse vari- 
eties. The most contradictory and at the same 
time the most acceptable form of the three 
leading isms specified above, finds its mani- 
festation in so-called Christian Science. 

Mrs. Eddy makes great claims concerning 
her so-called discoveries. She seems to feel 
that her position as a specially chosen 
" prophetess " and " seer " is justification 
enough to pronounce all other science false 
but her own, to condemn all the commonly ac- 
cepted philosophy, to anathematize all churches. 
She boldly asserts and seriously maintains that 



Origin of Christian Science. 47 

when she was only eight years of age she heard 
heavenly voices calling her to her divinely ap- 
pointed work of saving the world. This was 
to be done by giving the world " Christian 
Science." In the May number (1899) of The 
Arena we find some startling revelations given 
to the public by H. W. Dresser and Josephine 
C. Woodbury. If what they say is true, Mrs. 
Eddy is a plagiarist and a pirate. There is 
such a clear reasonableness in what they say 
and such a clear historical connection, that we 
fear that Mrs. Eddy will not undertake to over- 
throw these revelations. It comes to pass that 
her great discovery was made, and taught and 
practised by Dr. Quimby. Mrs. Eddy (then 
Mrs. Patterson) was a patient of his. He 
gave her personal and distant mental treat- 
ment. A letter from Mrs. Patterson (now 
Eddy) dated Jan. 12, 1863, refers to the bene- 
fit received by a mental treatment which 
stopped all pain and speaks of herself as " a 
living wonder and a living monument of your 
(Dr. Quimby's) power," as a result of which 
" five or six of my friends are going to visit 
you." She accepts Dr. Quimby's theory of 
disease according to this letter, and uses terms 
which appear in Dr. Quimby's manuscripts, 
and in Science and Health. She says, " My 
explanation of your curative principle sur- 
prises people." Subsequent letters to the 
Doctor show that she was spreading his ideas, 



48 Christian Science. 

defending him and making plain the differ- 
ence between his theory and spiritualism, and 
that she was trying to heal diseases by the 
same mental principle. In a letter dated. 
" Saco, Sept. 14, '63," Mrs. Patterson says. 
" I would like to have you in your omnipres- 
ence visit me (absent mental treatment) at 8 
o'clock this eve if convenient." From her 
letters to Dr. Ouimby we learn that she lec- 
tured on his theory, acknowledged that she ap- 
preciated the spiritual side of his teaching, and 
even speaks of his work as a " science " which 
was " demonstrated " in her case. She met a 
friend who was formerly editor of The Ban- 
ner of Light (a spiritualistic paper), show- 
ing something of her associates, who thought 
Dr. Quimby was a defunct spiritualist ; " be- 
fore I quitted him," she says, " he had en- 
dorsed your science." The following an- 
nouncement was made publicly in Warren, 
Me. : " Mrs. M. M. Patterson will lecture at 
the Town Hall one week from next Wednes- 
day, on P. P. Quimby's Spiritual Science 
healing disease — as opposed to Deism or 
Rochester Rapping Spiritualism." She de- 
clared to a friend concerning Dr. Quimby's 
power, " Why even the winds and the waves 
obey him." 

The truth is, that Mrs. Eddy has stolen 
many of these peculiar doctrines, clothing 
them in new dresses of mystical terms and 



Origin of Christian Science. 49 

claims the whole thing as a revelation. She 
has practised mesmerism, was a believer in 
spiritualism and practised somewhat of clair- 
voyance. Living witnesses, associates of Mrs. 
Patterson (now Eddy) in Portland and Lynn 
so testify. The clear and indisputable ac- 
count given in The Arena of her relationship 
to Dr. Quimby, her lectures on his " Science," 
his teachings, and her use of his manuscripts, 
and also the use of the same terms in his writ- 
ings and in her Science and Health all go to 
show beyond the shadow of a doubt that she 
has stolen her revelation from a man, and that 
she has not received it from God. She has 
stolen the laurels from a dead man's brow and 
tries to adorn therewith her own ! 

The only evidence that Mrs. Eddy has 
had anything to do with originating the 
philosophy of Dr. Quimby is found in the 
peculiarly worded interpretations of his 
principles and the foreign meanings of 
English words which she gives in order 
to shield his philosophy from detection. 
The writers in The Arena have made out such 
a clear case of fraud and piracy against this 
self-constituted prophetess so that any one with 
enough judgment to see what is right and 
wrong, and having honesty and moral courage 
enough to do the right, will as soon as possible 
cease following one who is so dishonest as to 
steal a, so-called revelation and try to palm it 
4 



50 Christian Science. 

off on an unsuspecting public. "If there is 
no sin," as this high priestess of Proteus 
teaches, then of course she has not done wrong, 
and stealing also is just as honorable as not 
stealing. But people who feel that there is 
a moral law against stealing, and recognize 
it in moral action, will see that this wholesale 
appropriation of another's writings, abstracted 
or reproduced from manuscript or from mem- 
ory, without giving credit for the same, is 
nothing less than thievery in its most brazen 
form. 

Dr. Quimby was Mrs. Eddy's (then Mrs. 
Patterson) physician. She had his confidence 
and had the privilege of reading his manu- 
scripts and hearing him expound his philos- 
ophy. As far back as 1838 he practised 
mesmerism and performed some remarkable 
cures. He practised the silent as well as the 
audible, the present and the absent, method 
of cure. Mrs. Eddy had a sharp, keen mind, 
her intuitions and reasoning powers were well 
developed, and she quickly saw the possibili- 
ties of a philosophy of that kind being utilized. 
She takes the principles and weaves about them 
peculiar forms of expressions and palms them 
off as a new revelation. She has succeeded in 
gathering about her many people and the cult, 
like Mormonism and Spiritualism, grows by 
virtue of the superstition of many people, and 
by the reputed and actual cures effected. The 



Origin of Christian Science. 51 

seeming religious teaching catches many peo-> 
pie who do not make any clear distinctions be-^ 
tween a theory and its practice. 

Mrs. Mary Mason Baker Glover Patterson 
Eddy has a keen instinct for making money by 
turning to profit lectures, books, spoons, photo- 
graphs, etc., etc. She has prospered in her 
pseudo-apostolical office and she has become 
very wealthy from the sales of the above 
mentioned articles. She charged $300 for 
twelve lectures, or lessons, that she gave to 
each class that attended her Metaphysical Col- 
lege. She has received a large amount of 
money into her mortal treasury from her book, 
Science and Health, which is sold at $3 per 
copy. The claim is made that 160,000 copies 
have been issued. The souvenir spoons, in the 
bowl of which is an etching of Mrs. Eddy's 
home, and on the handle of which " Mother " 
Eddy's benign countenance looks at all who 
buy them, sells at five dollars for the gold- 
plated and three dollars for the silver-plated 
ones. " Mother " asks every Christian 
Scientist to buy one or more, and that each 
member of the family shall have one also as a 
means of grace and healing. In this, as in 
many other respects, we see the shrewdness of 
Mrs. Eddy displayed in dealing with the de- 
sires of the mortal mind and in reaching after 
the material dollars. How she can harmonize 
her condemnation of preachers for their " lux- 



52 Christian Science. 

urious living " with their " soft palms up- 
turned to lordly salaries," and her great wealth, 
palatial home at Concord, N. H., and her prop- 
erty interests in Boston with her many liveried 
servants and secretaries,, and regularly paid 
doctors, as the reports go, we do not know or 
understand. She may be able to harmonize 
these things, but how we cannot see. 

From all that has been said, and from much 
more that might be said, we are led to infer 
that Christian Science has had a very human, 
ordinary origin and the prophetess has utilized 
it for the purpose of getting considerable 
material or filthy lucre out of it. 

Then too the essential principle of Mrs. 
Eddy's teaching is seen in the suggestion that 
every member of the family be furnished with 
a souvenir spoon as a means of grace and heal- 
ing. Having that, if they are sick they think 
about the possibility of getting well. And the 
utilization of the suggestion may produce on 
some few a good effect. But aside from that 
this souvenir spoon is a shrewd trick out of 
which Mrs. Eddy intends to .add to her ma- 
terial and mortal wealth by playing upon the 
credulity and superstition of the people. 

Mrs. Eddy says : " The fundamental propo- 
sitions of her teachings are self-evident, and if 
read backwards these propositions will be 
found to agree in statement and proofs " 
(S. and H., p. 7). The first one and the basis 



Origin of Christian Science. 53 

of all is " God is all." This proposition is 
Pantheism pure and simple, and if it is read 
backward "all is God" you have what the 
Christian Scientist professes to believe and 
what the Pantheist asserts. There is very- 
clear evidence running all through this pseudo- 
science that it is borrowed and has not been 
a revelation from heaven. Mrs. Eddy has the 
effrontery to say of the fundamental proposi- 
tion referred to above and of her teaching, 
"This is not Pantheism." What is it then? 
What does her dogmatic statements amount 
to in the presence of well-known and easily as- 
certained facts? Then, too, Pantheism has 
found many advocates and has been sent forth 
in many attires. Spinoza, Hegel and Fichte 
sent it forth in philosophical garb; Madame 
Blavatsky and her coterie of teachers and fol- 
lowers declared it to be an extraordinary and 
supra-mundane visitor in clothing of light; 
Mrs. Eddy and her followers send it forth as 
clothed in health-giving power; poetry brings 
it forth arrayed in splendor, thus appealing to 
the imagination; and literature arrays it in a 
dress that appeals to the curiosity, wonder and 
independence of the reader. But wherever it 
does appear, its final statement is that " God 
is all and all is God." Its God is the absolute, 
impersonal, boundless IT. 

Joseph Cook presented in one of his lectures 
the antithesis of this view in five propositions 



54 Christian Science. 

which have never been successfully denied or 
refuted. 

1. " There cannot be thought without a 
thinker." 

2. " There is thought in the universe." 

3'. " There is, therefore, a thinker in the 
universe." 

4. " But a thinker is a person." 

5. " Therefore, there is a personal thinker 
in the universe." 

But instead of taking this reasonable, logi- 
cal and philosophical view Mrs. Eddy took to 
the Pantheistic principle and further proved 
that she was a borrower and not original in 
her teachings. 

Superficially materialism is more reasonable 
than pantheism. Each of these " isms " has a 
philosophy of its own. Pantheism gives the 
philosophy of Omniscience, whilst materialism 
gives the philosophy of Nescience. To accept 
pantheism and its deductions is to deny one's 
own distinct existence and virtually claim that 
he is nothing more than a boil on the body. 
To accept materialism is to take unconscious 
delight in knocking out one's brains and thus 
destroying thought which is nearest spiritual 
existence. Unfortunately for these " isms " 
science is made up of facts and ideas. To 
deny the one or the other is to commit intel- 
lectual suicide, which is morally, spiritually 
and physically wrong. 



Origin of Christian Science. 55 

The truest philosophy is that which is based 
on the inductive method and begins with the 
fundamental facts of consciousness, the intui- 
tive knowledge of matter, of mind, of God, 
and of each as different from the other. 
Knowledge of the external world, of man's 
own mind, of God's existence and presence, 
are some of the essential and fundamental facts 
of a true, enduring and satisfying philosophy. 
But this is not Mrs. Eddy's philosophy pre- 
sented in her book Science and Health. 



56 Christian Science. 



CHAPTER V. 

THE TEACHINGS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CON- 
SIDERED. 

In this chapter we shall consider the su- 
preme and fundamental teachings of Mrs. 
Eddy's book. Five things at least are af- 
firmed : 

( i ) . There is no matter. 

(2). There is no individual mind. 

(3). There is no evil. 

(4). There is no personal God. 

(5). The Bible does not mean what it says. 

These are the accepted principles among all 
loyal Christian Scientists. 

That these are the principles advocated 
by Mrs. Eddy can be easily proven by refer- 
ence to her book. 

( 1 ) . There is no matter. Matter is not real. 
It is nothing beyond an illusion. (Ibid., p. 
158.) All is mind and there is no matter. 
(Ibid., p. 297.) Christian Science proposes 
* * * the extinction of all belief in matter, 
and the insistance upon the fact that mat- 
ter is nothing beyond an illusion. (Ibid., p. 
303.) In her book on The Unity of Good and. 



Teachings of Christian Science. 57 

Unreality of Evil, she devotes one entire chap- 
ter (pp. 39-46) to the futile endeavor to prove 
that there is no matter. 

In sickness you only feel a belief, whether 
it be cancer, deformity, consumption or frac- 
ture. (S. and H., p. 297.) Tumors, ulcers, 
tubercles, inflammation, pain, deformed backs, 
are all dream shadows, dark images of mortal 
thought that will flee before the light. (Ibid., 
p, 301.) " God never created matter, for there 
is nothing in spirit out of which matter could 
be created." (Ibid., p. 380.) "Matter is 
finite illusion." (Ibid., p. 406.) This last 
sentence translated into very common thought 
and language would be something % like this : — 
I am walking along and strike my toe, that has 
a corn on it, against a stone. The stone has 
no real existence, it is a " finite illusion." My 
toe has no real existence, it is also a " finite 
illusion," and of course the pain is an illusion. 
I only thought it was a stone. Of course I 
only thought I had a toe and hence I only 
thought I hurt it. This is fine philosophy! 
I saw a man bump his head against a beam of 
timber as he fell. The timber, his .head, his 
fall and his pain, that he said he had, were all 
" finite illusions " and had no existence what- 
ever. Matter is an illusion and has no exist- 
ence because Mrs. Eddy says so ! 

(2). There is no individual mind. There 
is but one mind or spirit because there is but 



58 Christian Science. 

one God. Man only reflects this one mind — 
man has no mind of his own. (S. and H., p. 
159.) Hence to divide mind into minds, spirit 
into spirits, soul into souls — is a broken link 
in the chain of Christian Science and hence 
(?) is of human instead of divine origin. 
{Historical Sketch of Christian Science Mind- 
Healing, p. 17.) There is really no finite mind 
or consciousness. {Unity of Good, p. 30.) 
We ought to rid ourselves of the belief that 
man is a separate intelligence from God. {S. 
and H., p. 259.) Man is only an idea of God, 
the conception of eternal mind, co-existent and 
co-eternal with it. Man was forever in God or 
mind. (Ibid., p. 378.) This is some more of 
Mrs. Eddy's metaphysics (or rather meta- 
fusics). Man to God would be what a boil is 
to the body or a wart to t!>e hand! He is a 
part of God somehow, but has no independent, 
individual consciousness or existence. 

(3). There is no evil. Evil has no exist- 
ence; it is neither person, place nor thing, it 
is a belief and delusion. {S. and H., p. 236.) 
Evil is an illusion and error (or sin), is a false 
belief. (Ibid., p. 412.) Matter and evil are 
both Anti-Christian. {Unity of Good, p. 66.) 
Evil is a negation — there is no power in evil. 
{S. and H., p. 34.) Mrs. Eddy claims that 
error and sin are identical. (Ibid., p. 22.) 
On page 317 she calls " sin " an illusion. This 
opens up some secrets to careful thinkers; 



Teachings of Christian Science. 59 

This sounds very much like a very old theol- 
ogy. Unfortunately for it, however, if we 
believe the Bible, it does not come from God! 
(4). There is no personal God. Mind is 
God and God is mind — there is but one mind. 
This is a teaching of so-called Christian 
Science. Man shines by borrowed light; he 
reflects God's mind and his reflection is sub- 
stance. Matter is substance in error, spirit is 
substance in truth. (Historical Sketch, pp. 17, 
18.) What a fine analysis! — how clear — yes, 
as clear as mud! We could forgive an idiot 
or a lunatic for such effusions, but what must 
we say of a teacher of science ! Oh, shades of 
Bacon, Huygens and Newton, deliver us from 
such contradictions and nonsense! ! ! God is 
mind. He is a Divine Principle, not person. 
(S. and H., p. 377.) God is soul or spirit and 
not limited mind nor a limited body ; therefore 
(?) spirit hath no outline. Soul is neither, and 
it cannot be a person. (S. and H., p. 378.) 
There is another marvelous truth (?) brought 
out in Mrs. Eddy's book, viz. : There is no 
personal devil. (S. and H., p. 393.) All that 
I have to say, knowing something of this 
world's history, is, if there is no devil there 
ought to be! The difficulty that Mrs. Eddy 
labors under is that she does not know the 
meaning of the word " person " used in phi- 
losophy and in theology. One thing is very 
evident in her writings, that is, that she uses 



60 Christian Science. 

words in any sense in order to give at leas? 
seeming plausibility to her teaching. Any one 
reading her books can easily verify this state- 
ment. 

(5). The Bible does not mean what it says. 
Mrs. Eddy seemingly — it is only seemingly — 
has great reverence and sympathy for the 
Bible. She says : " The Scriptures are very 
sacred to me." (S. and H., p. 470.) Any one 
wading through the fog-bank called Science 
and Health will very soon see that the sense 
of the Scriptures is entirely drowned and en- 
veloped by ridiculous platitudes and false in- 
terpretations, thus making the book of God, 
which has been such a comfort, power and 
light to multitudes, to be only an amulet or 
Kabala, which can only be interpreted by the 
Key or Glossary at the end of her unscientific 
and unhealthy Science and Health. The his- 
torical parts of the Bible are no more to her 
than the history of the Hottentots. Let me 
illustrate. The name Adam has twenty-six 
meanings and four representations. (S. and 
H., p. 526.) Poor Adam would not know him- 
self if he could come back to earth now and 
hear Mrs. Eddy read off his name and its 
meanings and representations. She also says: 
" The word Adam is from the Hebrew 
Adamah, signifying the red color of the 
ground, dust, nothingness. Divide the name 
Adam into two syllables and it reads, a dam 



Teachings of Christian Science. 61 

or obstruction. This suggests the thought of 
somthing fluid, of mortal mind in solution, 
etc." What can we think of people who ac- 
cept and the author who promulgates such 
teachings as scientific? Is it any wonder that 
" Mother Eddy " can bank so certainly upon 
her followers obeying her command to buy 
spoons? Such interpretations and explana- 
tions as those given in so-called Science and 
Health reminds one of the speech of the 
Duchess in Alice in Wonderland. " Never 
imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what 
it might appear to others that what you were or 
might have been was not otherwise than what 
you had been would have appeared to them 
to be otherwise." This quotation has a sem- 
blance of sense, but it is quite illusive, but 
Mrs. Eddy's explanations, interpretations and 
vaporizings are far more unintelligible. Mrs. 
Eddy has warned readers that her book 
will not be fully understood for several 
centuries yet. The reason is that " English is 
inadequate to the expression of spiritual con- 
ceptions." Well, well, it is too bad that this 
■age is to lose all this wise, wonderful and 
rwizardy philosophy just because our language 
is a poor vehicle by which to convey the great 
thoughts "of this prophetess ! 

In this " Key or Glossary " to Mrs. Eddy's 
work on Science and Health the Christian 
Science student and the Bible student are to 



62 Christian Science. 

receive assistance and light by which they can 
intelligently interpret the Bible. A few illus- 
trations beside the one given of the various 
meanings and representations of Adam's name 
will show how much dependence is to be put 
upon the vagaries of an erratic genius, whose 
chief principles are plagiarized and whose in- 
terpretations are mystically applied. The 
Devil has nearly three pages devoted to his 
(but he is not a his, he existeth not) name, 
and you can select " evil " with the " d " off or 
"animal magnetism" (the thing once largely 
practised by Mrs. Eddy and now by some 
of her followers), or many other meanings 
variously interpreted or applied. 

The children of Israel are "the representa- 
tives of soul, not corporeal sense; the off- 
spring of Spirit such as having wrestled with 
error, sin and sense are governed by Divine 
Science." 

The dove, which the Scriptures use as the 
beautiful emblem of the Spirit of God, be- 
comes " a symbol of Divine Science." 

The innocent Euphrates river is trans- 
formed under the touch of this wonderful ma- 
gician into " Divine Science, encompassing the 
universe and man." 

Poor Mother Eve is set forth as " a begin- 
ning ; that which does not last forever ; the be- 
lief that the human race originated materially 
instead of spiritually — that man started firstly 



Teachings of Christian Science. 63 

from dust, secondly from a rib, and thirdly 
from an egg." 

The city of Jerusalem is " mortal belief and 
knowledge, obtained from the five corporeal 
senses." 

" The Lamb of God which taketh away the 
sin of the world," according to the Scriptures, 
is " the spiritual idea of Love." 

Mother stands for " God, divine and eternal 
principle, Life, Truth and Love," and if Scien- 
tists believe this definition of mother, then she 
who is now called " Mother Eddy " stands for 
God! 

The resurrection is " the spiritualization of 
thought " and the new Jerusalem is " divine 
science " of course. 

You can take this " Key or Glossary " and 
you can make Scriptural names and terms 
mean anything you like. If Hobbes were liv- 
ing he certainly could justly say, as he has 
said, and with great and truthful emphasis, 
" Words are wise men's counters, but the 
money of fools." 

Christian Scientists inform us that the Bible 
has become a new book to them. This is prob- 
ably true. They knew so little of the Bible 
before they read Mrs. Eddy's book so that 
under the mystical interpretations given it is 
a new book. No thorough and intelligent 
Bible student can ever consistently or content- 
edly follow the teachings of Christian Science,! 



6 4 



Christian Science. 



It might be well in this connection to show 
how the teachings of so-called Christian 
Science contradict the plainest teachings of 
the Bible. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

" Jesus never ransomed man by 
paying the debt that sin incurs ; 
whosoever sins must suffer." — S. 
&> H., Vol. II., 189. 

" Sin is not forgiven; we cannot 
escape its penalty.'' — II., 165. 



THE RIBLE. 

" In whom we have redemption 
through his blood, even the forgive- 
ness of sins." — Col. 1 : 14. 

" If we confess our sins, he is 
faithful and just to forgive us our 
sins, and to cleanse us from all un- 
righteousness." — 1 John 1 : 9. 

" In everything, by prayer and 
supplication, with thanksgiving, let 
your requests be made known unto 
God."— Phil. 4 : 6. 

" For thy name's sake pardon 
mine iniquity " — Ps. 25 : II. 

" And forgive us our sins." — 
Luke 11:4. 

" From everlasting to everlasting 
thou art God." — Ps. 90: 2. 

" The soul that sinneth it shall 
die." — Ezek. 18 : 20. 

" Let not sin, therefore, reign in 
your mortal body." — Rom. 6: 12. 

" He shall also quicken your mor- 
tal bodies by the spirit that dwelleth 
in you." — Rom. 8:11. 

" So God created man in his own 
image, in the image of God created 
he him." — Gen. 1 : 57. 

These are most certainly contradictions if 
we can find contradictions of ideas at all. Dr. 
A. J. Gordon did a good service when he ar- 
ranged these Scriptural passages side by side 
with Mrs. Eddy's pretentious and contradic- 
tory teachings. 



" Petitioning a personal Deity is 
a misapprehension of the source 
and means of all good and blessed- 
ness; therefore it cannot be benefi- 
cial." — II., 170. 

" Asking God to pardon sin is a 
vain repetition, such as the heathen 
use. Habitual goodness is praying 
without ceasing." — II., 173. 

" The belief that man has a sepa- 
rate life or soul from God is the 
error that Jesus came to destroy." 

" Science decides matter or mortal 
body to be nothing but a belief and 
an illusion."— II., 193. 



" Man is co-eternal and co-existent 
with God, and they are inseparable 
in Divine Science." — I., 173. 



Teachings of Christian Science. 65 



Here are some more contradictions between 
the Bible and the teachings of Christian 
Science. These are only a few of many more 
that could be given. 

" Mortal body and material man 
are delusions that spiritual under- 
standing destroys."—.?. &* H., 
p. 27. 

" The term souls, or spirits, is as 
improper as the term Gods." — S. 
&> H., p. 404. 



"Man is incapable of sin. . . . 
Man cannot depart from holiness." 
—S. &> H., p. 541. 

" God is too pure to behold " 
[z. <?., cannot behold] "iniquity." — 
S. &° H., p. 125. 

" Principle \i. e., God] never par- 
dons either sins or mistakes." — 5". 
&> H., p. 490. 

" If we pray to God as a person, 
this will prevent us from letting go 
the human doubts and fears that at- 
tend all personality."— 5. &* H., 
p. 492. 

" There is no death. . . . Any ma- 
terial evidence of death is false, for 
it contradicts the spiritual facts of 
life."— 6". &>!/., p. 531. 

" The body is the same after 
as before death."— S. &= H., p. 
528. 

" It follows that there is a 
future state of probation and 
progress wherein to grow out 
of a material into a spiritual 
sense of existence." — ^". &> H., 
p. 528. 



" And the Lord God formed man 
of the dust of the ground and 
breathed into his nostrils the breath 
of life." — Gen. 2 : 7. 

" But ye are come unto Mount 
Sion, . . . and to the spirits of 
just men made perfect." — Heb. 12 : 
22-23. 

" For all have sinned and come 
short of the glory of God." — Rom. 
3 : 23. 

" The eyes of the Lord are in 
every place, beholding the evil and 
the good." — Prov. 15 : 3. 

" If we confess our sins, he is 
faithful and just to forgive us our 
sins."— 1 John 1 : 9. 

"After this manner therefore 
pray _ ye : ' Our Father which 
art in heaven.'" — Math. 6: 
9- 

" It is appointed unto men once 
to die." — Heb. 9 : 27. 



" It is sown a natural body, it is 
raised a spiritual body." — 1. Cor. 
IS : 44- 

"He_ that is unjust let him 
be unjust still : he which is fil- 
thy let him be filthy still : and 
he that is righteous let him be 
righteous still."— Rev. 22: 



The application of Scripture as confirming 
the teachings of this unreasonable, unscien- 
tific, unchristian, plagiarized system is amus- 
5 



66 Christian Science. 

ing if not to say ridiculous. One of the 
lecturers answers the following questions in 
his own unique way and thinks it very com- 
prehensively, thoroughly and unquestioningly 
done. The questions are : " What constitutes 
demonstrable Truth? What is Christian 
Science? Is it Bible Science? Is it Life 
Science ? Note the following Scriptural texts : 
It is able Science. ' And God is able to make 
all grace abound.' It is Bible Science. ' The 
Word of God is quick and powerful.' It is 
clean Science. ' I will cleanse their blood that 
I have not cleansed.' It is Divine Science. 
1 The Lord is my Light and my salvation, 
whom shall I fear.' It is equal Science. ' The 
Lord respecteth not the person of any man/ 
It is free Science. ' Stand fast in the Liberty 
wherewith Christ maketh his people free.' It 
is a glorious Science. ' When Christ, our Life, 
shall be manifest, then shall we be manifested 
with him gloriously.' It is a healthy Science. 
' I shall yet praise him who is the health of 
my countenance and my God.' It is individual 
Science. ' Every one of us shall give account 
of himself to God.' It is just Science. ' The 
Just shall live by Faith.' It is Kingly Science. 
' Ye are a Kingdom of priests ! ' It is love 
Science. ' God is love.' It is mind Science. 
' Let this mind be in you which was also in 
Christ Jesus.' It is a neighborly Science. 
* Which was neighbor to him that fell among 



Teachings of Christian Science. 67 

thieves.' (Let me answer this — The person 
who tries to get a sick man away from a 
money-loving Christian Scientist.) It is the 
promised Science. ' Not one thing hath failed 
of all his good promised.' It is a quick 
Science. ' He hath made him quick of un- 
derstanding.' It is a right Science. ' Let the 
Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his 
wings.' It is a Spiritual Science. ' We de- 
monstrate the Spirit of God with power.' It 
is a True Science. ' We can do nothing 
against the truth but for the truth.' It is a 
uniting Science. ' That they may be one.' It 
is wise Science. ' Wisdom is justified of her 
children.' The Character of Christian Scien- 
tists justifies the manifested wisdom of our 
•Mother in Israel. It is excelling Science. 
' Seek that ye excel to the edification of the 
Church.' It is a yielding Science. ' Yield 
yourselves therefore unto God as those that 
are alive from the dead.' It is a zealous 
Science. ' God redeemed us from all iniquity 
(There is no such thing), and purified unto 
himself a peculiar people zealous of good 
works.' " This lecturer says : " We thus de- 
monstrate (?) the practical excellence of 
Christian Science by our ' Bible Science Al- 
phabet.' " He also says : " I have proven to 
you that Christian Science is not only Science, 
but Bible Science, Christian Science and there- 
fore the Science of Life." Oh, shades of Mill 



68 Christian Science. 

and Jevons and all the logicians before them 
and since, what reasoning, and begging the 
question ! It is on a par with the old trick 
which we learned at school. " No cat has nine 
tails; one cat has one tail more than no cat. 
Therefore every cat has ten tails." There is no 
more absurdity in this reasoning than in that 
presented from this lecturer who is acknowl- 
edged to be one of their greatest propagandists 
in the field. No wonder he left the ministry. 
It is a wonder he ever entered it. We make 
this final quotation from this lecture as it 
is a part and parcel of the foolishness 
and fallacy promulgated by Christian Science 
teachers. " We consciously declare," he 
says, " that Science and Health, with Key to 
the Scriptures, was foretold as well as its 
author (the italics are his), Mary Baker 
Eddy, in Revelation 10. She is the ' mighty 
Angel,' or God's highest thought to this age 
(verse i), giving us the spiritual interpreta- 
tion of the Bible in the ' little book open ' 
(verse 2)." It is very hard for a reasonable 
person reading such stuff to possess his soul 
in patience. 

It is utterly impossible for Mrs. Eddy and 
her followers to accept the Bible in its plain 
and reasonable statements and hold to their 
teachings. They ought to give up one or the 
other and they must to be honest. 



A Scientific Explanation of the Cures. 69 



CHAPTER VI. 

'A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF THE CURES. 

Mrs. Eddy says that the " principles " which 
she announces have both physical and spiritual 
application and power. The physical have 
proven the best paying and most powerful in 
securing a treatment from Christian Scien- 
tists. But then there is no matter and it does 
not matter, except that it seems to be a great 
matter, if the matter does not materially be- 
come a matter of some thought on the part of 
the persons who have the matter to settle. 

It may be well for us to consider one of the 
supreme principles of Mrs. Eddy's teachings. 
" Mind is God and, therefore, cannot be sick " 
— " what is termed matter cannot be sick " (S. 
and H., p. 293), therefore, "man is never 
sick, for mind is not sick and matter cannot 
be " {S. and H., p. 341), therefore, " sickness 
is a delusion" (p. 342). To put this in 
syllogistic form it would run as follows : — 
Mind is God and cannot be sick, therefore, 
man, who is God or mind, cannot be sick. 

Mind is God and God cannot be sick. A. 



70 Christian Science. 

tree is life and matter, but matter does not ex- 
ist as there is nothing but spirit or mind, hence 
the tree is spirit or mind and cannot be sick. 
"All is mind; there is no matter." (S. and 
II., p. 360.) So we could reason of an animal 
as well as a tree. An animal is spirit or mind 
as there is no matter; but mind cannot be sick, 
therefore, an animal cannot be sick. Yet I 
have seen some very sick animals. They have 
died of cholera and distemper, yet according to 
the teaching of this new fad, Christian Science, 
they were not sick. To deny the testimony of 
the senses and certain fundamental facts of 
consciousness is contrary to the elementary 
principles of all true philosophy. 

Mrs. Eddy tells us that sickness is simply a 
belief or thought and has no actual existence. 
A person only thinks he has neuralgia, rheuma- 
tism, corns, headache, a broken leg, sciatica, 
gout, cancer, deformity, consumption. (S. 
and H., p. 297.) Tumors, ulcers, tubercles, 
inflammation, pain, are all dream-shadows, 
dark images of mortal thought that will flee 
before the light. (S. and H., p. 301.) 

To cure all ailments and beliefs as well as all 
other things to which the flesh is heir, Mrs. 
Eddy informs us that we must " mentally con- 
tradict every complaint from the body; and 
hold (the) ground disputatiously, until the 
body yields to your (our) demand." (S. and 
II., p. 308.) But there is no body, and how 



A Scientific Explanation of the Cures. 71 

can one contradict its complaints, and how can 
it yield to any demand? 

If Mrs. Eddy, in a vague and mystical 
manner, says that the mind has power over the 
body and by the exercise of the will or the emo- 
tions great results in producing and curing dis- 
eases are evident, no one that knows anything 
of psychology and physiology would think of 
denying this. Multitudes of cases might be 
cited from medical and psychological authori- 
ties that prove that statement to be true be- 
yond the shadow of a doubt. Mind Cure, 
Faith-healing, the cures of Christian Science, 
and every cure wrought is conditioned upon 
the mind accepting the suggestions of another 
mind, or the suggestions of one's own mind 
and acting upon the suggestion that one is 
cured. It shall be my purpose to prove this 
proposition in this chapter. 

There are two or three preliminary state- 
ments that we ought to make in order to make 
the discussion as simple and unbiased as pos- 
sible. 1. The element of faith in receiving 
and believing the suggestions is usually present 
in all sicknesses caused or cured. 2. The actual 
cures reported by the classes of " healers " re- 
ferred to above must be greatly reduced for 
several reasons on account of ( 1 ) faulty diag- 
nosis — the diseases were not what the practi- 
tioner said they were; (2) hallucination of the 
senses and mistaken judgment; (3) feigning 



72 Christian Science. 

sickness in order to shirk work or to make a 
great reputation by virtue of the cure; (4) 
self-limitation of some diseases; (5) imagin- 
ary diseases; (6) intentional misrepresentation 
of patients or witnesses; (7) spontaneous heal- 
ing; (8) the lying statements of healers. 
These conditions will reduce the marvelous 
cures of wonderful healers, etc., to consider- 
ably less than fifty per cent. 

3. The mind's condition affects the body; 
the body's condition influences the mind. In 
disease the sub-conscious mind has special 
power over the body and its functions; in 
health there is a balanced condition of con- 
scious and sub-conscious power, each using 
the bcdy as an instrument through which to 
manifest itself. There will be a fuller discus- 
sion of these things as we go along. 

There are many proofs of the influence of 
the mind upon the body. The emotion of sor- 
row, in moderation increases, but in excess 
checks, the flow of tears. Bloody sweat has 
been seen after extreme mental agony. Pass- 
ing emotions and anticipations will increase 
the flow of blood and cause one to breathe 
faster. " We hold our breath " when our at- 
tention and expectation are held intently. Sud- 
den joy or fear has caused sudden death. It 
has been observed by physicians and psychol- 
ogists that bodily secretions are effected some- 
how as the result of processes going on in the 



A Scientific Explanation of the Cures. 73 

gray matter of the brain. The conclusion has 
been reached long ago that the mind " con- 
stantly plays upon the body for good or evil — 
causing disease, co-operating with it or caus- 
ing its departure." The cortex or surface of 
the brain is the meeting-place of every organ 
and function of the body and they are brought 
into vital unity therein. It is now believed, 
that to a great extent the " ego " is formed 
in the cortex. Professor Bain has shown that 
all tissue nutrition is unconsciously influenced 
from this center and most physiological pro- 
cesses can be arrested mentally by its action. 
A sound and cheerful mind working through 
the cortex is a great protection against dis- 
eases, and if disease is present in the body mind 
can often eradicate it. 

There is a great truth underlying what is 
called Christian Science, but it is lost in the 
theological vagaries which are taught or pre- 
sented by Mrs. Eddy and her followers. In 
brief it may be stated thus : There is a con- 
scious and a sub-conscious manifestation of 
mind. Each has control of certain parts or 
functions of the body. For convenience we 
will call the one conscious mind and the other 
the sub-conscious mind. The conscious mind 
is largely controlled by the senses or it is 
through the senses that it receives knowledge 
and impressions of the outer world and 
then classifies and utilizes its knowledge 



74 Christian Science. 

and forms its judgments. The sub-con- 
scious mind is controlled by suggestion. Sug- 
gestion is the magic wand that causes the sub- 
conscious mind to open and reveal its power 
and its treasures and produce great effects in 
the body. 

The conscious mind collates, classifies and 
cognizes the world without and around us and 
its media are the senses. The sub-conscious 
mind intuitively classifies, ornaments and re- 
tains what the conscious mind gathers, and 
independently of the senses, by means of its 
intuitive power records all knowledge and per- 
forms its highest functions. The conscious 
mind in normal man is controlled by reason, 
knowledge, the sense perceptions and by the 
suggestions of others. The sub-conscious 
mind is controlled by suggestion alone. 

Mental or suggestive therapeutics can be 
applied to bodily ailments in three ways at 
least ; ( I ) by the sub-conscious mind influ- 
enced by suggestion in spiritual or physical 
surroundings ; ( 2 ) by the sub-conscious mind 
acted on by the conscious mind in producing 
faith in persons, remedies, or places, etc. ; and 
(3) by the conscious mind suggesting and act- 
ing upon the sub-conscious mind by the power 
of the will rousing the determination to get 
well to stop pain, and to prevent sickness, etc. 
Suggestions are the controlling power over the 
sub-conscious mind and these suggestions can 



A Scientific Explanation of the Cures. 75 

be made by another person, by surrounding 
conditions and influences or by one's own con- 
scious mind, and since the sub-conscious mind 
has control of the bodily functions and the 
emotions, we find some very remarkable effects 
and cures produced by suggestion through the 
sub-conscious mind. 

A few illustrations from hundreds that 
might be given will make the above proposi- 
tion plain. Take for instance the remarkable 
cures that have been effected of which we have 
authentic history. St. Patrick, healing the 
blind by laying his hands on their eyes; St. 
Bernard restoring sight to eleven blind people 
and causing eight lame persons to walk and 
three dumb persons to speak, by laying his 
hands on them, and who was himself cured of 
his afflictions by St. Lawrence and St. Bene- 
dict, who came and touched him; Constan- 
tine and many others cured of colic and af- 
fection of the spleen by King Pyrrhus, who 
would lay patients on their backs and pass 
his great toe over them; the reported cures 
at Lourdes; the cures wrought by the holy 
coat of Treves; the cures of faith healers, 
mental healers and Christian Scientists can all 
be explained by the principle announced. The 
sub-conscious mind receives and acts upon the 
suggestions, and this mind controlling the 
bodily functions and conditions through it 
the cure is effected. 



76 Christian Science. 

The citation of several cases as to particu- 
lars will make this plain to the reader. A 
young man had paralysis of the tongue which 
seemingly yielded to no form of treatment. 
A certain doctor desired to try an instrument 
of his own invention which he thought would 
secure excellent results. Before performing 
the operation he placed a pocket thermometer 
into the patient's month. The patient thought 
it was the instrument, and as a result of auto- 
suggestion produced by the conditions about 
him he immediately cried out joyfully that he 
could move his tongue freely. 

A young woman afflicted with aphonia, loss 
of voice, went to Dr. Bernheim for treatment. 
He prepared to try electricity. Before doing 
so he put his hand over the larynx and moved 
it up and down and said to her, " Now you can 
speak aloud." He told her to say " a." She 
said it. The aphonia disappeared. 

A Catholic woman went to Dr. Hammond to 
consult with him about her sickness. He con- 
sidered that she had an incurable disorder. 
(Doctors are sometimes mistaken in their diag- 
nosis.) She turned away with a sigh. 
" Ah," she said, " if I but had some of the 
water of Lourdes, then I should be cured." It 
so happened that a friend had brought the doc- 
tor a bottle of the genuine water that he might 
chemically analyze it and find out its medical 
properties. He told her that he had some and 



A Scientific Explanation of the Cures. 77 

promised to give her some providing she 
would first try a more potent remedy, Aqua 
Crotonis (Croton aqueduct water). She said 
that it could not reach her case. (The sugges- 
tion of Lourdes water had complete control of 
her.) He gave her a little bottle of Lourdes 
water, but labeled it " Aqua Crotonis." She 
returned no better. Then he gave her a vial 
of Croton water and labeled it " Water of 
Lourdes." She was completely cured. 

I have heard of a practical joke played by a 
dozen students upon a classmate. One of them 
met him with the greeting : " John, how pale 
you look ! You must be sick." " Never felt 
better in my life," replied John. The second, 
on meeting him, insisted that he was very pale, 
and looked as if he ought to be in bed. The 
third added the same doleful testimony, and 
before the twelfth was reached, John was sick 
and a physician was sent for. Suggestions 
made him sick. 

A story is told of a person who was exe- 
cuted by suggestions. Some physicians ob- 
tained permission from the authorities to try 
the effect of suggestion upon the body. They 
informed the criminal that they were ordered 
to bleed him to death in his cell, and thus save 
him from the disgrace of a public execution. 
He readily consented. He was blindfolded, 
and the doctor pretended to pierce his arm with 
a lancet, poured warm water over it into a 



78 Christian Science. 

basin, so that he could distinctly hear it drip- 
ping. After a while one of them said : " He 
will live five minutes ;" " four minutes more ;" 
" three minutes ; " " two minutes ; " " one min- 
ute;" " half a minute;" " fifteen seconds;" and 
when the time expired the man was dead. 
Whether this story be true or not, it might 
have been true. Men have been killed by sud- 
den mental shocks, some by shocks of great 
joy, others by shocks of great disappointment. 
There is no doubt of the fact that the body and 
the mind are intimately related, and that by 
suggestion through the sub-conscious mind, 
health or disease can be carried to the body. 

As sickness can be cured by suggestion so 
it can be produced by suggestion. A woman 
saw a child caught in a gate and she thought 
that its ankle was crushed. The suggestion 
was so strong that one of her ankles swelled 
and became very red. 

Dr. Prince tells of a certain lady who be- 
lieved that the presence of a rose in the room 
where she was brought on violent catarrh and 
weeping. Whenever she smelled a rose, those 
symptoms would invariably occur. One day 
Dr. Prince suddenly presented her with an 
artificial rose which she smelled, and a severe 
case of catarrh and weeping was produced. 
The doctor confessed the fraud and the mental 
shock of the counter suggestion by the doc- 
tor restored her immediately and the affliction 



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ceased. One element that enters largely into 
medical diagnosis to-day is the mental thought, 
in the form of conscious or sub-conscious sug- 
gestion, which acts on the secretions of the 
body as in fear or excessive emotion. In fact 
mental emotions produce a change in the char- 
acter of all the secretions of the body. Differ- 
ent positions of the open hand are much used 
now in diagnosing nervous diseases owing to 
the fact that spontaneous nerve activity mani- 
fests itself there. That activity is dependent 
on mental conditions. 

A man some time ago saw a friend of his 
with a stricture of the gullet and soon after 
experienced trouble in swallowing, and he 
ultimately died of a spasm of the throat. 
Any standard works on Suggestive Therapeu- 
tics will give numerous cases where sug- 
gestions through the sub-conscious mind 
have cured many diseases and sicknesses and 
will, in some cases, also show how those dis- 
eases and sicknesses were produced. 

Emotion has caused epilepsy, diabetes, jaun- 
dice, paralysis, boils, cancer, gastric diseases 
and the most serious diseases known. 

Prof. Rolleston says that a defeated army 
readily succumbs to dysentery, scurvy, ma- 
larial fever and other diseases. There is a 
very slight affection among the victorious. 

Many similar cases could be cited, but 
enough has been said by statement and illus- 



80 Christian Science. 

tration to convince the intelligent reader that 
the one great element entering into and pro- 
ducing the cure by Christian Scientists is the 
suggestion which the sub-conscious mind re- 
ceives and acts upon. The suggestions usu- 
ally made are : " There is no sickness," " You 
are not sick," " There is nothing to get sick," 
"You are in good health," "You are well," 
with the result that the person feels better. 
Then the suggestion is deepened by the person 
telling others that health has been restored and 
thus the sub-conscious mind utilizes the sug- 
gestions by the " healer " and auto-suggestions 
by himself, so that finally in some cases a cure 
is effected. Then, too. disease is usually found 
in one who is controlled by it largely, and he is 
therefore in a negative condition. When sug- 
gestions are made by the " healer " or by him- 
self he becomes positive and disease is con- 
trolled and frequently eliminated from the sys- 
tem. The success of healers, etc., is solely, 
wholly dependent upon the reception of the 
suggestions by the sub-conscious mind of the 
afflicted. There is a great therapeutic fact in 
Christian Science, faith healing, mental heal- 
ing, etc. There is no miracle about these heal- 
ings. It would be a miracle if the body con- 
stituted as it is, and the mind controlling it as 
it does, and the laws of life being such as they 
are, if the body was not healed by suggestion, 
under favorable conditions, of certain diseases. 



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Faith and fear and other emotions set going 
certain powers of the body which are con- 
trolled by the sub-conscious mind and by 
which disease may be produced and cured. 
Dr. J. M. Bruce says : " We are compelled to 
acknowledge a power of natural recovery in- 
herent in the body — a similar statement has 
been made by the writers on the principle of 
medicine in all ages." 

Dr. John Hunter says : " As the state of 
the mind is capable of producing a disease, 
another state of it may effect a cure." Sir 
Thomas G. Stewart says : " In heart disease 
the most important element is rest. Second in 
importance is perhaps the element of hope." 
Establish the idea of hope in one so afflicted 
and benefits almost immediately follow. On 
the contrary, if the patient is despondent, there 
is danger of a siege of sickness or of death. 
A friend of mine has heart trouble. He says 
it seems as though he is doomed. Recently he 
was examined for life insurance. He stood 
such an excellent examination that the thought 
of heart trouble left him for a time. 
The changed suggestion caused him to 
feel better. Hundreds of similar cases could 
be cited. The controlling suggestion has in- 
fluenced the sub-conscious mind so that a cor- 
responding good effect is realized in the body. 
" A lady suffered from organic heart disease 
and rapidly developed dropsy, from distress 
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82 Christian Science. 

at the conduct of her husband, and was in im- 
minent peril of death. At this crisis she lost 
her reason. The disturbing mental factor (of 
disease) being eliminated, the balance of the 
laboring circulation quickly righted itself." 
This case is cited by Dr. A. Morrison, in the 
Practitioner, 1892, p. 29. It is a positive 
proof of the effect of the change of controlling 
suggestions. 

" Father " Chiniquy was taken sick with 
typhoid fever in Canada and was told by his 
bishop and four physicians that he would die. 
He had a vision in which his favorite saint 
told him, " You will be cured." He got well 
and all Quebec was rejoicing in the miracle. 
Four physicians examined him and showed 
him that his recovery was due to his strong 
will. Chiniquy listened, but thought his saint 
wrought the cure. He had a votive picture 
made of her. A priest who saw it told Chini- 
quy that the cure was no miracle, and at last 
that suggestion was lodged in his mind. Some 
years after he was taken sick again with ty- 
phoid fever in Chicago and was given up to 
die. He did not pray to any saint, but deter- 
mined to get well and did so. He then saw 
that the saints had nothing to do with this or 
the previous cure and soon after took the ma- 
ture down and burned it. This incident is 
found in his life. 

A young woman persisted that she would 



A Scientific Explanation of the Cures. 83 

die of typhoid fever. She was taken down 
with it. The physician learned that she was 
controlled by the suggestion that this disease 
would result in her death. She said to him, 
" I am going to die." He said, " Certainly," 
to her surprise. She persisted that she would 
die. He said, " Of course you will." She 
asked him if he did not care. " Oh, yes," he 
6aid, " but you say you are going to die. You 
will probably die if you say you will." She 
said, " My saying so does not make it so." 
He said, " It may, for if you said you would 
not die you would likely get well." She ac- 
cepted the counter-suggestion and got well. 

Dr. Buckley cites the following case : " A 
doctor was called to see a lady with severe 
rheumatism. He improvised a vapor bath in 
bed, with an old tin pipe and a tea-kettle, and 
only succeeded in scalding the patient with the 
boiling water proceeding from the overfull 
kettle through the pipe. The patient screamed, 
' Doctor, you have scalded me,' and leaped 
out of bed. The rheumatism was cured and 
did not return." The curing of warts, of hic- 
coughs and many other minor ailments by 
suggestions either with or without means to 
aid the suggestions are matters of common oc- 
currence.- Fraser's Magazine for May, 1873, 
gives a case of whooping cough which was 
cured by a good whipping. The cures that 
are wrought by medicine presumably have a 



84 Christian Science. 

psychical element associated with them, and 
doctors and psychologists are now saying it is 
the most effective element in the cure. The 
assertion has recently been made that medi- 
cine does not cure at all but only stimulates or 
excites or depresses, by or without suggestion, 
the diseased parts, so that the vital forces of 
the body can gain their equilibrium or ease of 
action. 

The principle of suggestion is utilized by 
Christian Scientists and healers in general. 
Mrs. Eddy says : " Argue with the patient : 
You have no disease, you are not in danger; 
you have nothing to fear, and are perfectly 
well ! and you will find it soothes the symp- 
toms of any disease! If the disease is con- 
sumption, begin your arguments by showing 
that inflammations, tubercles, hemorrhages 
and decompositions are but thoughts, beliefs, 
mental images, before mortal mind, not the 
immortal mind. Drugs, cataplasm and whis- 
key are shocking substitutes for the dignity 
and potency of mind. Any abnormal condi- 
tion of the bones is the action of mortal mind 
as direct as insanity. Bones have no more 
substance than thoughts, what we call matter 
was primitively error in solution." Here is 
suggestion advocated and idealism run to 
seed. These are practically the statements 
made by Dr. P. P. Quimby, from whom Mrs. 
Eddy plagiarized most of her teaching. The 



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curative agent in Christian Science and all 
systems of mental healing is suggestion con- 
trolling the sub-conscious mind, which con- 
trols the vital functions of the body. This is 
equally true of many cures wrought — equally 
wonderful — by hypnotists and by the great 
doctors of some of the hospitals of Europe, 
and now being utilized in our country: 
they cure by means of suggestions received by 
the sub-conscious mind of the afflicted. " Dr. 
Ranieri Gerbe, of Pisa, cured 401 out of 626 
cases of toothache, by making the sufferers 
crush a small insect between their fingers, 
which he represented as an unfailing specific." 

We have cited the above cases to make clear, 
if possible, the proposition that suggestion, 
either from the mind of another or from one's 
own mind, produces very remarkable effects on 
the body, and that cures wrought by Christian 
Scientists and healers generally are thus ef- 
fected. We are only on the outer edge of the 
application of the great law and principle of 
suggestion which will be utilized in the restora- 
tion and maintenance of health and happiness. 
Many people apply it now to themselves and 
to others — some unwittingly and some know- 
ingly — and more will do so as they learn how 
to use and direct it. 

There is, however, no need of denying the 
existence of matter and disease in order to 
get beneficial results from suggestions made 



S6 Christian Science. 

to and utilized by the sub-conscious mind. 
Mrs. Eddy says that the person healing- and 
the person healed must mentally contradict 
every complaint from the body, and hold (the) 
ground disputatiously, until the body yields 
to your (our) demand." This is nonsense. 

" When a person thinks he is well he is 
well," says the Christian Scientist. I had a 
swollen finger some time ago. It threatened 
to be a felon or a " run around." It turned 
out to be the latter. When it pained me 
severely, I would say it did not pain, and every 
time I said it I told a lie. Suppuration and 
a needle gave me relief when lying did not! 
Every time a Christian Scientist treats genuine 
sickness they have to lie, for they commence 
by denying sickness if they follow Mrs. Eddy's 
instructions. There is some so-called sickness 
that can be dispelled by getting the person's 
mind off of the supposed ailments and causing 
him to expect a cure, or by making counter- 
suggestions which will produce opposite ef- 
fects. Dr. Hack Tuke, in his book on The In- 
fluence of the Mind upon the Body in Health 
and Disease, gives many illustrations of this 
proposition, as also does Dr. Carpenter, of 
England, in his work on Mesmerism and Spirit- 
ualism. And so do other eminent physicians. 
There is no doubt at all but that a suggestion 
and an expectation with co-operating circum- 
stances or a great emotion may control a per- 



A Scientific Explanation of the Cures. 87 

son both mentally and physically, producing 
health and disease as well as epidemic delu- 
sions. 

It is scarcely necessary for me to mention 
the Dancing mania of the Middle Ages; the 
supposed Demoniacal Possession in the nun- 
neries of France; the Mewing and Biting 
manias in the nunneries of Germany; the ec- 
static revelations of Catholic and Protestant 
visionaries; the Tarentism of Southern Italy; 
the Leaping Ague of Scotland ; the Witchcraft 
mania of New England and similar manias as 
illustrations — all of which are explained upon 
the hypothesis that the subjection of the mind 
to a dominant idea or suggestion results in a 
great expectation and corresponding action. 
This is not only true of delusions but just as 
true of health and disease. The cure of disease 
is effected in many cases by suggestion and the 
expectation of health with or without the use of 
means; in other cases by the co-operation of 
thought, by mental utilization of a psychic ele- 
ment not yet thoroughly understood. That 
there is such a psychic element, no one, who has 
read the latest results of psychical investiga- 
tions in England and America, can doubt. 
The limited space for the discussion of this 
phase of Christian Science will not permit cita- 
tions from the Reports, that would very much 
clear away some, if not all, the fog and tom- 
foolery advocated as a great discovery on the, 



88 Christian Science. 

part of Mrs. Eddy. Visual impressions, dia- 
grams, tastes, thoughts, pains, may be trans- 
ferred from one mind to another by concentra- 
tion of thought and suggestions. If pains and 
impressions can be given in this way, can they 
not be cured in the same way? 

Those things mentioned above, which are 
like manias, and are such in fact, are all con- 
ditioned upon suggestions received by the sub- 
conscious mind and acted upon. 

Then, too, may not thought, as many phe- 
nomena in nature, have vibratory energy? It 
is a well-known fact in science that all struc- 
tures have a definite rate of vibration, depend- 
ing of course on their materials, size and shape. 
Let me illustrate this fact. A fiddler came 
along when the bridge at Colbrooke Dale, New 
England, was being built, and he said to the 
workmen that he could fiddle their bridge 
down. The builders told him to fiddle away. 
He struck note after note until one was found 
that the bridge vibrated to. The stronger he 
played the more the bridge shook, until the 
alarmed and fearful workmen asked him to 
stop. They were afraid that he would fiddle 
the bridge down. It is a well-authenticated 
fact that a drinking-glass has been broken 
when its sympathetic note has been sounded. 

Is it at all incredible that by a similar vi- 
bratory energy some sicknesses can be cured, 
and certain very remarkable things done when 



A Scientific Explanation of the Cures. 89 

the mind is, or at times may not necessarily 
be, dominated by a great suggestion or ex- 
pectation? Some time ago I read of a woman 
who had a tumor cured by following the di- 
rections, given by a friend, to touch a corpse. 
This was the suggestion applied. She was 
cured by the suggestion and a great expecta- 
tion, acting through the mind on the heart, 
causing the blood to flow faster to the diseased 
condition and sloughed off the tumor. Many 
other cases could be given, equally authentic 
and even more remarkable, if space were per- 
mitted. But the cases given in the first part of 
this chapter and here will be enough just now 
to make plain the leading thought that sug- 
gestion utilized produces wonderful results. 

However, it may be well for me to say that 
" Physiological- Psychology " is at present ren- 
dering magnificent assistance in helping to 
solve many seemingly inexplicable things. 
Dominant controlling ideas or suggestions, 
psychical energy and great expectations will 
successfully explain all the remarkable things 
done by Christian Scientists. Knowing this, 
is it not a little amusing, to say the least, to 
read Mrs. Eddy's book containing her great 
theological and scientific instructions, and find 
that her teachings have no more direct rela- 
tionship to the trials of healing, curing disease, 
and what she professes to be able to do, than 
a book has with a walking-stick, or a desk has 



90 Christian Science. 

with a horse? Any one carefully reading her 
book will very quickly detect this non-rela- 
tionship of her teachings and her professed 
efforts to heal. 

She says she has restored persons to perfect 
health who were suffering from heart disease, 
enteritis, ulceration, hip disease, and has even 
raised up persons to life when " the dew of 
death was on the brow." (S. and H., pp. 24, 
42-45.) She also says, "I have healed hope- 
less disease and raised the dying to life and 
health" (p. 317). "I have raised up the 
dying" (p. 330). Yet, notwithstanding her 
saying that she has done these things is it not 
remarkable that she has buried at least two 
husbands in the last twelve years? Why did 
she not raise them up from " dying, to life and 
health"? Echo answers, why? 

Mrs. Eddy would have greatly aided her 
cause if she had given the names and ad- 
dresses of the persons that she has brought 
back to life. Those persons doubtless would 
have been glad to record their testimony con- 
cerning her marvelous power. But unfortu- 
nately this statement of hers, like many others 
which she makes, does not prove it so. She 
also claims that the principle which she advo- 
cates " is divine and apodictical " — that is, 
it is evidence beyond contradiction. (S. and 
H., p. 11.) She says that " no human tongue 
or pen has suggested the contents of Science 



A Scientific Explanation of the Cures. 91 

and Health (her book), nor can tongue or 
pen ever overthrow it." (S. and H., p. 12.)' 
It seems a little strange that Dr. Quimby and 
Mrs. Eddy talk so much alike, excepting the 
doctor is not so boastful. He advocated the 
same principles and practised the same 
methods in curing disease, and Mrs. Eddy 
was one of his patients and borrowed his writ- 
ings, and in the face of all this she professes 
to have discovered all these things and to have 
received them as a divine revelation. And pray 
where did she discover them? In Dr. Quim- 
by's writings. How are they divine and apo- 
dictical ? She says because they are " beyond 
contradiction and overthrow." This is pure 
assumption on her part and is scarcely worthy 
the attention which is accorded to her and 
what she says. She also claims that " the 
principle of my system is demonstrable." (S. 
and H., p. 9.) If that is true why does she not 
submit some proofs of her claims to human 
belief? Yet in a book of six hundred pages or 
more she offers not one proof in confirmation 
of her dogmatic statements. A " divine and 
apodictical " teacher should at least be reason- 
able and present some credentials for her won- 
derful works. Mrs. Eddy, in a sense, claims 
infallibility. We have heard of others that 
made the same claim — but they are not now 
running around loose. They are wards of the 
state to care for and at times to restrain.: 



92 Christian Science. 

One of the graduates of the Massachusetts 
Metaphysical College said some time ago : — 

" Mrs. Eddy had taken poison with im- 
punity, that by the power of her mind she 
can cause a dying plant to revive, bud, and 
bloom, and that she has already raised the 
dead." How much truth is there in these as- 
sertions? Unfortunately there is at present 
no opportunity to test Mrs. Eddy's power to 
heal, as she advertises that she " takes no pa- 
tients and has no time for medical consulta- 
tion." Some of her refusals, however, to give 
a practical demonstration of the Science look 
suspiciously like an unwillingness begotten of 
fear. Prof. L. G. Townsend, D. D., of the 
Boston University, made a public offer to Mrs. 
Eddy, through the columns of Zion's Herald 
[Dec. 3, 1884], of one thousand dollars 
($1,000) " if she, or her entire college of doc- 
tors, would put into place a real case of hip or 
ankle dislocation, without resorting to the 
ordinary manipulations, or without touching 
it ; " and he further offered two thousand dol- 
lars ($2,000) " if she, or her entire college, 
would give sight to one of the inmates of the 
South Boston Asylum for the Blind, that 
sightless person having been born blind." In 
the Journal of Christian Science, Feb. 7, Mrs. 
Eddy noticed the offer, and said : " Will the 
gentleman accept my thanks due to his gene- 
rosity, for, if I should accept his bid, he would 



A Scientific Explanation of the Cures. 93 

lose his money. Why? Because I performed 
more difficult tasks fifteen years ago. At pres- 
ent I am in another department of Christian 
work, ' where there shall no sign be given 
them,' for they shall be instructed in the prin- 
ciples of Christian Science that furnishes its 
own proof." Had Mrs. Eddy refused on the 
ground that such a test was unfair, and that, 
under such conditions, her power to heal would 
be limited, we could not object. But, when 
she claims the power and practically affirms 
that she is able to work the cures, and still re- 
fuses, her answer seems but little better than 
the evasion of a quack. 

She claims that distance and belief in Chris- 
tian Science do not prevent its effective work- 
ing. (S. and H., p. 44.) She says she in- 
stantaneously healed a crushed foot of a per- 
son living in Cincinnati, O., so that the man 
put on his boot and walked several miles. 
What a pity she did not publish his affidavit. 
I do not believe what she says about this cure. 
On page 311 of Science and Health we have 
other accounts of marvelous cures which Mrs. 
Eddy claims to have wrought. " By mind 
alone I have prevented disease, preserved and 
restored health, healed chronic as well as acute 
ailments in their severest forms, elongated 
shortened limbs, relaxed rigid muscles, re- 
stored decaying bones to healthy conditions, 
brought back the lost substance of the lungs 



94 Christian Science. 

and caused them to resume their proper func- 
tions." (S. and H., p. 152.) 

Some of these things have not been done, 
others may have been by the process previously 
referred to. 1 

I do not believe that Mrs. Eddy performed 
the possible or probable cures by her mind 
alone. If any cures were wrought it was in 
co-operation with the suggestion to and the 
expectation of the afflicted. If she did all 
these things by her own powers alone why 
does she not walk along the streets of Boston 
and into the hospitals and dispense her mar- 
velous healing virtue to the joy and health of 
the sick and afflicted and to the discomfiture 
of the doctors and the undertakers? That is 
not the zvay that Mrs. Eddy works. There is 
no physical side to that manner of healing! 
There is no money in that ! ! 



Mortal Thought. 95 



CHAPTER VII. 

MORTAL THOUGHT AND SELF-EVIDENT PROPO- 
SITIONS. 

The cures Mrs. Eddy has wrought are not 
nearly so marvelous as some of the cures that 
have been wrought by Charcot of France, De 
Luys of England and many others through 
Hypnotism. Some things that she says she 
has done she never did and never can do! 

Let us consider briefly another of her great 
principles, viz., " Science by the alchemy of 
Spirit neutralizes disease." (S. and H., p. 
313.) "What I term chemicalization is the 
upheaval produced when Immortal Truth is 
destroying eroneous and mortal belief." " Pa- 
tients unfamiliar with the cause of this com- 
motion, and ignorant that it is a favorable 
omen, may be alarmed." To put this in the 
form of an illustration, it would run as fol- 
lows : You have eaten something that will not 
digest, you take an emetic and an upheaval 
occurs which is a chemicalization. Or, to il- 
lustrate the latter statement, a person eats a 
meal, gas is generated by the food and fluids 



96 Christian Science. 

of the body, and a chemicalization occurs 
which results in the colic, and so the person 
" unfamiliar with the cause of the commotion, 
and ignorant that it is a favorable omen, may- 
be alarmed," but should not be, for it is only 
chemicalization and that is not dangerous, for 
" Science by the alchemy of Spirit " will soon 
relieve. 

Those illustrations are an account of real 
chemicalizations. Mrs. Eddy's idea is that 
thought or truth meeting error there is a simi- 
lar process going on within the mind and body 
and truth will chemicalize error and will com- 
pel it to pass away. It hardly seems possible 
that any sane person can make the statements 
which she has made in her book Science and 
Health. It is a marvelous thing that any sane 
people can accept that stuff as science. Yet the 
statements have been made and they have been 
called a revelation, and there are many people 
who accept them as such and claim to believe 
and practise them as scientific. 

Mrs. Eddy claims that the general belief of 
the people is the producing cause of so-called 
misery and death. The child falls into the 
water and is drowned because people believe 
that water will drown. A boy falls into the 
fire and is burned because people think fire will 
burn. A man by mistake takes arsenic and 
dies because people believe he will die. The 
few who think the drug harmless, where a 



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mistake has been made in the prescription, are 
unequal to the many who have named it poison, 
and so the majority opinion governs the re- 
sult. (S. and H., p. 35.) On the same prin- 
ciple I suppose a man is drunk simply because 
people think so. In other words, if the great 
majority of the people should believe that 
poisons would not kill, that water would not 
drown, that fire would not burn, that a fall 
would not hurt, we should be living in a 
world where we could take all poisons, live 
under water, walk in fires, fall off of high 
precipices, do anything contrary to natural 
laws and suffer not, neither be killed, simply 
because the people believe the violation of these 
laws would not be visited by penalties. This 
is Science! 

A man hanged for a crime would not, 
under such circumstances, suffer pain nor die, 
because the people believe that he has no pain 
and that he cannot die. He is simply resting a 
little while from his labors. No, he is not even 
hanging, if the people just believe he is not. 
I f this is not science, then what is ? 

If people would change their belief every- 
thing would be different. We could fly, walk 
through fire, live in the heart of a cyclone, 
live under water, swim like fish, run like deer, 
never grow old, if people believed these things. 
Why don't they believe this way? Echo an- 
swers, why? 

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98 Christian Science. 

It might be well to follow out this line of 
argument by Mrs. Eddy, to show how ridicu- 
lous it is. She says, " Close your eyes and you 
may dream that you see a flower, that you 
touch and smell it. Thus you learn that a 
flower is the product of mind, a formation of 
thought rather than of matter." (S. and H., 

P-235) 

This is said to support her theory that there 
is no physical causation, that what you seem 
to see is simply an image having no external 
object back of it. Flowers, landscapes, people, 
etc., etc., have no objective existence but are 
only images which the mind creates within 
itself, but, let me ask, images of what? Is it 
possible to have an image without a reality an- 
swering to it? Let Mrs. Eddy close her eyes 
and try to see an object, the like of which in 
some form or other she has never seen with 
her eyes open, and she will find that she has 
struck an " eye-opener." It is A utterly im- 
possible for the mind to create an image of 
that which has not some form of objective ex- 
istence. This old false theory of Berkeley has 
been driven back into the realm of shades by 
this great fact and others equally great. 

Mrs. Eddy's hypothesis concerning elec- 
tricity is an amazement if nothing else to any 
one who knows anything at all about its laws 
and utilization. She says, " Electricity is not 
a vital fluid (how does she know?) but an 



Mortal Thought. 99 

element of mortal mind, the thought-essence 
that forms the link between what is termed 
matter and mortal mind. Both are different* 
strata of human belief. (How does she know 
they are?) The self-destructive forces of 
mortal thought are expressed in the earth- 
quake, the wind, wave, lightning, fire, the 
ferocity of beasts." (S. and H., pp. 171, 172.) 
If enough human beings thought that these 
things could not destroy, then their force 
would be futile. Since there is no physical 
causation, according to this teaching, earth- 
quakes, fires, floods, storms, etc., are simgly 
imaginings of the human mind, having no 
reality in the external or objective world! 

The destruction of the cities by Vesuvius, 
the burning of Rome and Chicago, the Johns- 
town flood, the Charleston earthquake, the ter- 
rible wreck on the coast of England in which 
six hundred lives were lost, the yellow fever 
scourge, the cholera epidemic, the destructive 
la grippe, the grasshopper plague, the Western 
cyclones, the Eastern blizzards, the Turko- 
Grecian, Spanish- American, and Anglo-Boer 
wars, and all manner of diseases, devastations 
and desolations, are imaginings and dream 
shadows of the human mind having no reality 
in the external world ! There was and is no 
real destruction of life and property, for these 
various things that cause the world to stand 
aghast were and ,are only " self-destructive 

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forces of mortal thought " expressing them- 
selves to " mortal mind " in unreal images that 
have no objective reality. 

This same nonsense is applied to fevers. 
'' The images held in the unconscious mind 
frighten conscious thought. The fever pic- 
tures drawn by millions of mortals, and de- 
picted on the body through transfer of thought 
from one mortal mind to another, rest at 
length on some individual mind and a belief of 
fear that ends in a belief of death, to be finally 
conquered by Life. Truth is always the vic- 
tor. Sickness and sin fall by their own 
weight." (S. and H., p. 329.) Oh, that they 
were heavy enough to fall to rise no more ! 

Never before has the world had such a clear 
explanation of fevers and death. The fear of 
fevers and of death has produced them. A 
number of persons unconsciously think of 
fevers and the thought becomes active and the 
fever breaks out in the body of some individ- 
ual, who believes he is sick when he is not ! 

This will doubtless apply to boils, car- 
buncles, dropsy, the gout, the headache, the 
backache, etc., as well as to death. Just think 
of what humanity has brought on individuals. 
1 wondered some time ago why I had the rheu- 
matism. Humanity unconsciously thought 
about it and by and by I consciously thought 
I had it, and lo the pains keen and strong took 
hold upon me. All I had to do, according to 



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Mrs. Eddy's teachings, was to deny I had a 
pain or go to a Christian Scientist and pay $i 
to have her (for it is usually "her") sit 
quietly with head down and deny that I had 
a pain! If I ever have a good chance to pay 
humanity back I shall do it with compound in- 
terest for unconsciously thinking about the 
rheumatism and havj 
unconscious thought. 

Before storms, floods, fires and earthquakes 
were in the world, the mind unconsciously 
thought of and dreaded these things, and oc- 
casionally this thought and dread concentrated 
and localized in a fire in Chicago, in a flood at 
Johnstown, in a cyclone in Minnesota, in a 
storm at sea, in an earthquake at Charleston! 
Of course, these things have no material ex- 
istence, for there is no matter. They are only 
the influence of the public mind under the in- 
fluence of fear. Storms do not produce the 
fear of storms, but the fear of storms produces 
the dreams that are called storms. Floods do 
not produce- the fear of floods, but the fear 
produces the delusions that, are called floods. 
Sickness and death do not cause the fear of 
these things, but fear produces the hallucina- 
tions that are named sickness and death. This 
wonderful conclusion of Mrs. Eddy's grows 
out of the principle that all is mind and there 
is no matter, therefore, the cause of all these 
things is always mental and never physical. 



102 Christian Science. 

Lincoln and Garfield were not killed by 
Booth and Guiteau, but were scared to death 
because people were scared and thought they 
would die. The public fear resulted in so- 
called death. What a shame it was to con- 
demn and kill Booth and Guiteau, the one 
without a trial and the other with, as assassins. 
They were only martyrs because the public 
fear of death took our martyred Presidents 
away. What a magnificent science this is. 
How it does help us to explain the things 
clearly that have seemed to be such great mys- 
teries ! 

You have the cure for fevers and other ail- 
ments on page 329 of Science and Health. 
" To prevent a fever, or to cure it mentally, 
let spirit destroy this dream of sense — paralyze 
fear, and you end the fever." Argument not 
medicine is the remedy. Spirit denying the 
disease will cure it. Paralyze fear and disease 
will take wings and flee away. When your 
friend is burning with fever and dying of 
thirst, do not use cool and refreshing water 
and ice to reduce the temperature and allay 
the thirst, but simply sit down and argue the 
fever and thirst away. Just " paralyze fear 
and you end the fever " and thirst. So you 
may cure colic, croup, smallpox, cholera, yel- 
low fever, la grippe, etc., etc. " Paralyze fear 
and you end the sickness." The insane asylums 
ought to be enlarged, for they will be needed 



Mortal Thought. 1 03 

by and by for people teaching such stuff for 
Science and Christianity ! 

The non-existence of matter is claimed be- 
cause of " the great facts of omnipotence and 
omnipresence of Spirit possessing all power 
and filling all space, contradicting forever — 
the notion that matter can be actual. God — 
spirit — according to this priestess, fills all 
space, and so there is no room for sun, moon, 
stars, men, not even for a Christian Scientist. 
The presumption of the Almighty leads her, 
as she thinks, to set aside the testimony of 
the senses and thus to reject " the notion that 
matter can be actual." Here is philosophy 
and theology. Save the mark ! 

Mrs. Eddy seems to put some stress upon 
mortal thought and material existence. She 
lives in a large and beautifully furnished 
mansion. 

The old specter-like mystery, which she 
learned when she gave spiritistic seances, when 
she was younger than she is now and less in- 
firm, she keeps up by living a cloistered life 
among the New Hampshire hills, to which 
shrine her followers come with great expecta- 
tions of communing with her and many of 
them going away with only a fleeting view of 
her person, and often only hearing her mes- 
sages through one of her servants or attend- 
ants. When she drives out in her carriage it 
is closed, possibly, for fear that this " woman 



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clothed with the sun, and the moon under her 
feet," this woman of whom John prophesied 
in the Apocalypse, as some of her devotees 
claim, might let her healing power be mani- 
fested towards some of the infirm that hobble 
and creep along the road. 

Mrs. Eddy has been quite mortal in the 
past whatever she may be now. Her full name 
indicates that she was a much married woman. 
Her husbands all died. Why? Because 
mortal thought killed them. Did Mrs. Eddy 
exercise her " immortal " thought against the 
mortal thought? We do not know. If she 
did, then mortal thought was stronger than 
her thought and hence they died. Mrs. Mary 
Mason Baker Glover Patterson Eddy, " the 
Feminine Principle of the Messianic Expecta- 
tion " in this century, is and has been playing 
fast and loose with human nature in its in- 
firmities, credulity and superstition for gain 
and has never yet rendered a tithe of benefit for 
the honor, reverence and money received. 
She has even plagiarized the name " Christian 
Science " and the principles of her book Sci- 
ence and Health according to Mr. J. A. 
Dresser. If this is not " mortal thought " in 
operation and material gain in speculation, 
then this universe in which we live is a fraud. 
If it is not a fraud, then Mrs. Eddy is. 

Let us now briefly consider Mrs. Eddy's 
" self-evident " propositions. There are four 



Mortal Thought. 105 

of them at least. Mark Twain in the Cosmo- 
politan gives some racy suggestive comments 
on these propositions. A Christian Science 
healer is instructing him. She says : 

1. God is All in all. 2. God is good. Good 
is Mind. 3. God, Spirit, being all, nothing is 
matter. 4. Life, God, omnipotent Good, deny 
death, evil, sin, disease. 

Here is the dialogue between the Christian 
Scientist and Twain. He says : 

" Does — does it explain? " 

''Doesn't it? Even if read backwards it 
will do it." 

With a budding hope, I asked her to do it 
backward. 

"• Very well. Disease sin evil death deny 
Good omnipotent God life matter is nothing 
all being Spirit. God, Mind is Good, Good is 
God, all in All is God. There — do you under- 
stand now ? " 

" It — it — well, it is plainer than it was be- 
fore; still " 

"Well?" 

" Could you try it some more ways ? " 

" As many as you like ; it always means the 
same. Interchanged in any way you please it 
cannot be made to mean anything different 
from what it means when put in any other 
way. Because it is perfect. You can jumble 
it all up, and it makes no difference : it always 
comes out the way it was before. It was a 



106 Christian Science. 

marvelous mind that produced it. As a mental 
tour de force it is without a mate, it defies 
alike the simple, the concrete and the occult." 

" It seems to be a corker." 

I blushed for the word, but it was out be- 
fore I could stop it. 

" A what? " 

" A — wonderful structure — combination, so 
to speak, of profound thoughts — unthinkable 
ones — un " 

" It is true. Read backwards, or forwards, 
or perpendicularly, or at any given angle, these 
four propositions will always be found to 
agree in statement and proof." 

" Ah — proof. Now we are coming at it. 
The statements agree; they agree with — with 
— anyway, they agree; I noticed that; but 
what is it they prove — I mean, in particular? " 

" Why, nothing could be clearer. They 
prove: i. God — Principle, Life, Truth, Love, 
Soul, Spirit, Mind. Do you get that?"' 

" I — well, I seem to. Go on, please." 

" 2. Man — God's universal idea, individ-* 
rial, perfect, clear, eternal. Is it clear?" 

" It — I think so. Continue." 

"3. Idea — An image in Mind; the im- 
mediate object of understanding. There it is 
— the whole sublime Arcana of Christian 
Science in a nutshell. Do you find a weak 
place in it anywhere? " 

" Well — no; it seems strong." 



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" Very well. There is more. Those three 
constitute the Scientific Definition of Immortal 
Mind. Next, we have the Scientific Defini- 
tion of Mortal Mind. Thus: First Degree: 
Depravity. 1. Physical — Passions and appe- 
tites, fear, depraved will, pride, envy, deceit, 
hatred, revenge, sin, disease, death." 

" Phantasms, madam — unrealities, as I 
understand it." 

" Every one. Second Degree : Evil Dis- 
appearing. 1. Moral — Honesty, affection, 
compassion, hope, faith, meekness, temper- 
ance. Is it clear ? " 

" Crystal." 

"Third Degree: Spiritual Salvation. 1. 
Spiritual — Faith, wisdom, power, purity, 
understanding, health, love. You see how 
searchingly and co-ordinately interdependent 
and anthropomorphous it all is. In this Third 
Degree, as we know by the revelations of 
Christian Science, mortal mind disappears." 

This is well put and the keenness of the 
satire, the suggestiveness of the questions and 
comments brings out clearly the contradic- 
tions, fallacies and presumptions on the part 
of Mrs. Eddy and her followers as teachers. 

Let us consider these propositions from a 
logical standpoint. 1. " God is all — all is 
God." This we are told is self-evident. Is 
it? Space is not God. The atmosphere is not 
k £od,. nor the ocean, nor continents, nor 



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whales, nor animals — these are not God. 
Mrs. Eddy confounds God and his works. As 
there is an " I " and a " not I," so there is 
" God " and " not God." This is the plain 
common sense of it. If Mrs. Eddy cites I 
Cor. 15:28 as confirming her statement she 
ought to read the connection and learn " that 
God may be all " means order, government ; 
but the " all " she makes God is substance and 
self. From the Scripture statement " God all 
in all " and its connection she can no more get 
the conclusion, " From this it follows that 
nothing possesses reality or existence except 
mind, God" (S. and H., p. 226), any more 
than she could say that Queen Victoria is all of 
England and all of England is Queen Victoria, 
therefore only Queen Victoria has reality or 
existence. The word nothing is doubtless 
used in the sense of " no thing," if she means 
" nothing " in the absolute sense then we say 
that " nothing possesses neither reality nor ex- 
istence," but that invalidates her conclusion. 
She denies God's personality and changes 
" Him " into a principle and " It." What is 
God according to this late Metaphysician ? 
Has he existence separate from his works? 
Has he consciousness, will-power and purpose? 
Is he a principle or a persona? She plainly 
states that " God is a Divine Principle." 
Then he is not a person. He cannot hear, nor 
see, nor answer prayer, nor help man, nor do 



Mortal Thought. 109 

anything intelligently. Mrs. Eddy thinks that 
she meets the theological idea of God, that he 
is an intelligent, omnipresent, omnipotent, om- 
niscient and loving persona. She ought to 
have informed herself as to the meaning of the 
word " person " in theology, then she would 
not make such an unpardonable blunder as to 
say that God is a "supreme incorporeal Being," 
the very thing that theology teaches and which 
Mrs. Eddy does not believe. A Principle is 
not a person, a being. This practically gets 
rid of God entirely, and as we shall see further 
on gets rid of individual responsibility to do 
right. 

2. " God is good, Good is mind." The con- 
clusion is, therefore mind is God. But all mind 
is not good, therefore all mind is not God. It 
is easily demonstrated that all mind is not 
good. Experience, history and observation 
prove this. This proposition is partly true 
and partly false, therefore false in its con- 
clusion. Hence it is not a self-evident proposi- 
tion. 

3. " God, Spirit, being all, nothing is mat- 
ter." Before she can affirm this proposition 
she must prove it, hence it is not self-evident. 
Matter is something. Therefore, God, Spirit 
is not all. Mrs. Eddy won't put her hand into 
the fire and leave it there for one hour. Why ? 
Because she knows that fire will burn. What 
sense and reason is there in saying that mat- 



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ter is nothing when she knows that it is some- 
thing? Why does she live in a house at all? 
Why does she have liveried servants to wait 
on her? Why does she eat, sleep, exercise? 
Her teachings are too ethereal for her prac- 
tice. She will have to change this proposition 
to make it self-evident. 

4. " Life, God, Omnipotent Good, deny 
Death, Evil, Sin, Disease." Here is a futile 
attempt to place one set of terms against an- 
other set, and thus by choice you may take 
whichever you favor. But Mrs. Eddy and 
everybody else must meet the facts. Is there 
"Disease," "Sin," "Evil," "Death"? If 
there is and it can be proven, then the self- 
evident proposition is a self-evident falsehood. 
Mrs. Eddy has been called to follow three 
husbands, at least, to the tomb — were they 
dead ? We hope so for her sake. Mrs. Eddy's 
assertion that there is no " disease, evil, sin, 
death," unfortunately does not make it so, and 
does not destroy their existence, hence they are 
realities and we should cease trying to ignore 
or deny their existence and presence and do 
what we can to effectually meet and conquer 
them. 

These propositions are on a par with many 
other statements which Airs. Eddy has made. 
She condemns the study of Anatomy, Physi- 
ology and Pathology. She claims that food is 
not a necessity. Her practice denies her teach- 



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ing. She says exercise does not develop muscle 
or keep one in health. Bathing and rubbing 
are needless. She says, " Bathing and rub- 
bing to alter the secretions, or remove un- 
healthy exhalations from the cuticle, receive 
a useful rebuke from Christian Healing." If 
Christian Scientists practise such teaching the 
farther away from them a person is with sen- 
sitive smell the better. But they practise better 
than they teach, for many of them are very 
careful to bathe and observe the laws of health 
in eating and otherwise, and thus maintain 
their good health. But such teaching is 
abominable and shameful, and put forth under 
the name of science and health it is criminal. 
It is a proven proposition that a person 
who violates the laws of nature will suffer 
sooner or later. Dr. Evans, who also believes 
in the healing power of mind, says of some of 
Mrs. Eddy's theories : " To modify a patient's 
thinking in regard to himself and disease, we 
employ the principle of suggestion or positive 
affirmation. No sick man was ever cured by 
reasoning with him, mentally or verbally. It 
is the business of the man who knows the 
truth, not to argue, but to affirm. No intelli- 
gent practitioner of the mind cure will ignore 
wholly all medical science." He dissents from 
Mrs. Eddy's statements in which she denies 
God's personality. " It is not necessary," he 
says, "to deny the personality of God. 



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Neither is it necessary to deny the personality 
and persistent individuality of the human 
spirit." He also says, " It is not necessary 
to tell a man dying of consumption that he is 
not sick, for that is not true." Dr. Evans has 
the best, most reasonable and most scientific 
view of the matter as compared with Christian 
Scientists and some other schools of healing. 
Mrs. Eddy's views of mortal thought and 
her self-evident propositions cannot stand the 
tests of reason, science and common sense, 
therefore, her views are fallacious. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

MRS. EDDY AND REVELATION. 

Mrs. Eddy gives very explicit instructions 
to healers as any one may see by reading her 
book. For instance, on page 294, she says, 
" If you call mentally and silently the disease 
by name (yet it has no existence) as you 
argue against it, as a general rule, the body 
will respond more quickly; just as a person 
replies more readily when his name is spoken. 
To let the Spirit bear witness without words 
is the most scientific way. For myself I heal 
without silent argument." However, she says 
in a note to the preface of her book, " The 
Authoress takes no patients and has no time 
for medical consultation." This latter state- 
ment makes the former one clear. But, taking 
her direction or instruction to a healer sug- 
gests a picture. Frank Beard or some other 
artist stands with crayon in hand before a 
clean paper. He draws two persons sitting 
back to back or face to face. The one is very 
large and has his foot thoroughly wrapped 
with a cloth. The other person is a Christian 
3 



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Science healer who is engaged in a mental 
contest with "Mr. Gout." She (for usually 
it is a female) has her face pensively resting 
on her hand with her eyes closed, and then she 
solemnly and silently waits until the toe or 
fcot responds. Of course it does not respond 
fully on this one treatment. Another picture 
reveals the fact that she asked one dollar for 
the fifteen minutes' sit. Another picture shows 
him limping out of the room. Subsequent 
pictures and history reveal the fact that for 
every fifteen-minute sit one dollar is paid to 
the woman who sits and pensively waits until 
fifteen minutes expire so that she may secure 
a dollar. Thus- the man is duped, thinking to 
rid himself of the gout by having a woman call 
it silently by name so that it might " chemi- 
calize " and go. But he goes out with the 
gout. 

Let us now for a moment or two look at 
some of Mrs. Eddy's theological teachings. 
Incidentally we have considered several al- 
ready. " God the Father, Jesus the Son, Di- 
vine Science the Holy Ghost, these titles ex- 
press the three-fold essential nature of the In- 
finite." (S. and H., p. 182.) I must confess 
to the reader that my pen has dropped from my 
hand several times when I have seen the pre- 
sumption, blasphemy and sacrilege manifested 
by Mrs. Eddy's teachings. The preposterous 
idea of calling " Christian Science " the Holy 



Mrs. Eddy and Revelation. 115 

Ghost. I have actually thought when reading 
Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy that she 
was really jesting at times, but I have no 
reason to think that she does not believe what 
she says. If she does believe all she says then 
she is to be pitied. 

Mrs. Eddy says Jesus healed by " Christian 
Science" (S. and H., pp. 182, 352), yet she 
claims to have discovered it " in the year 
1866." She also claims to be the successor of 
Jesus since the apostolic times. (Historical 
Sketch, p. 8.) She says God called her. (S. 
and H., p. 352.) She avers that the revela- 
tion had to be made through a woman (His- 
torical Sketch, p. 8) through one who was 
near to God. (Ibid., p. 8.) Any abuse of her 
mission is an impossibility. (S. and H., p. 
352.) Here is infallibility and hence theol- 
ogy, science, medicine, etc., ought to be turned 
over for Mrs. Eddy's approval or disapproval. 
O shades of Moses, Bacon and Esculapius save 
us! 

Is it any wonder that the wonderful claim is 
made that Mrs. Eddy is the woman referred to 
in Revelation? Mark Twain in the article 
previously referred to presents this matter in a 
strong light in which any one can see the ridic- 
ulousness of the claim. The Christian Science 
healer quotes : 

" ' Revelation xii. 1. And there appeared a 
great wonder in heaven — a woman clothed 



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with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and 
upon her head a crown of twelve stars,' and 
says: 

"That is our Head, our Chief, our Dis- 
coverer of Christian Science — nothing can be 
plainer, nothing surer. And note this : 

" ' Revelation xii. 6. And the woman fled 
into the wilderness, where she had a place pre- 
pared of God.' 

"That is Boston." 

" I recognize it, madam. These are sublime 
things, and impressive; I never understood 
these passages before ; please go on with the — 
with the — proofs." 

" Very well. Listen : 

" ' And I saw another mighty angel come 
down from heaven, clothed with a cloud ; and 
a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was 
as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of 
fire. And he had in his hand a little book.' 

" A little book, merely a little book — could 
words be modester? Yet how stupendous its 
importance! Do you know what book that 



" Was it- 



" I hold it in my hand — Christian Science ! " 
" Love, Livers, Lights, Bones, Truth, Kid- 
neys, one of a series, alone and without equal 
— it is beyond imagination for wonder ! " 

"Hear our Founder's eloquent words: 
1 Then will a voice from harmony cry, " Go 



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and take the little book: take it and eat it up, 
and it shall make thy belly bitter; but it shall 
be in thy mouth sweet as honey." Mortal, 
obey the heavenly evangel. Take up Divine 
Science. Read it from beginning to end. 
Study it, ponder it. It will be indeed sweet 
at its first taste, when it heals you; but 
murmur not over Truth, if you find its di- 
gestion bitter.' You now know the history of 
our dear and holy Science, sir, and that its 
origin is not of this earth, but only its dis- 
covery. I will leave the book with you and will 
go, now; but give yourself no uneasiness — I 
will give you absent treatment from now till 
I go to bed." 

Mrs. Eddy and her followers may claim that 
she is infallible and that it is impossible for 
her to abuse her mission, but like many other 
of her statements and theirs the proof is needed 
to verify what they say. I do not wonder that 
when Twain heard or read all this stuff that he 
thought it was safer to trust himself to a horse 
doctor. I think it was a wise conclusion on his 
part, if he did say it ironically. 

Mrs. Eddy speaks of Jesus as imperfect, not 
having " conquered the belief in material life." 
(S. and H., p. 270; Unity of Good, p. 78.) 
She says miracles are impossible. (Ibid., p. 
247.) Prayer is needless and public prayer is 
liable to lead to error. (Ibid., p. 491.) 
There is really no sin, it is only an illusion. 



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(Ibid., p. 412.) The atonement is virtually 
denied. (Ibid., pp. 500, 508.) There is no 
judgment day except that which occurs 
"hourly and continually." (Ibid., p. 180.) 
There will be no resurrection as there is no 
need of any. (Ibid., p. 180.) Hell is twelve 
things (Ibid., p. 537), and according to Chris- 
tian Science really nothing, and has no exist- 
ence. But these are a few of Mrs. Eddy's 
teachings which have never been original with 
her but are original with persons who made no 
pretensions to be Christians and who reject the 
Bible as a full and complete revelation of 
God's will to man. What value can we put 
on her claim to read the original languages 
when such ignorance is manifested as is seen 
on page 403 where she says that omni (as 
in omniscience, omnipotence, etc.) is from the 
Latin omnus, all. This may be a mistake; if 
not, it proves Mrs. Eddy ignorant of Latin. 
If Mrs. Eddy is teaching a new science and a 
new Christianity, why shall she not, being in- 
fallible, have also the privilege of teaching 
something new in Latin in her book. One 
Hundred and Forty-seventh Edition, revised! 
The truth when fully told is that Mrs. Eddy 
in her reading has gathered up some mystical 
dreamings of some effete philosophers and 
some of the speculations which have long 
since been discarded and has thrown them 
together much as the " Witch's Soup '* 



Mrs. Eddy and Revelation. 1 19 

was made and has labeled the conglomer- 
ate and heterogeneous mass " Christian 
Science " which is really and truly neither 
" Christian nor Science." It is oriental 
pantheism, Madame Blavatskyism, Berkeley- 
ism, nonsense, ignorance and fallacy, all 
preserved in a little Scripture mystically inter- 
preted. It is one of the greatest humbugs and 
fads that has ever been imposed on humanity 
under the name of Science and Christianity. 

What authority does Mrs. Eddy give us for 
her teachings and practices ? She declares that 
she finds her authority in the fact that she has 
cured many sick people. Suppose that she has 
done all that she claims, that does not prove 
anything as to her being endued with super- 
natural power or that she has been divinely 
chosen to give a revelation or do wonderful 
works. Many physicians and hypnotists have 
cured more people than she has and they plead 
no supernatural power. Mesmer healed more 
people than Mrs. Eddy has, and did more re- 
markable things ; Jenner discovered that vacci- 
nation would prevent smallpox, and has thus 
brought immunity to thousands of persons ; 
Koch has made discoveries which have saved 
the lives of multitudes — but these men do not 
make any claim to supernatural power and thus 
propagate a lot of false teachings to bolster up 
their practices. They simply utilized existing 
laws and discoveries and remedies, and thus 



120 Christian Science. 

accomplished their purpose. There is a little 
secret underlying Mrs. Eddy's statement for 
her authority to teach and heal which any care- 
ful reader of her book will readily discover. It 
is this, Jesus thus proved himself divine, she 
avers, and upon the same basis she lays claim 
to divine right and supernatural authority. 
But Mrs. Eddy is not wise enough or wilfully 
will not see that Jesus never used his power 
to heal as a proof of his divinity. The power 
to heal was always presented as an incident to 
his real, essential existence and manifestation. 
His divinity was a fact without any healing 
power manifested in miracle or otherwise. 
Mrs. Eddy says, " God had been graciously 
fitting me during many years for the recep- 
tion of a final revelation." What proofs 
does she give to verify her statement? 
None whatever. O presumption, thy name 
is not meekness and modesty at least! A 
final revelation implies that previous revela- 
tions were not complete. What has Mrs. 
Eddy revealed that has not been in existence 
among men? Not one truth, but she has 
dressed up old Pantheistic ideas that have 
been answered many years ago and sent them 
forth to do, if possible, new service under a 
new name. The Christian Science Journal 
says," Science and Health (Mrs. Eddy's book) 
does what Jesus did not because humanity was 
not ready for it; it states the rules and princi- 



Mrs. Eddy and Revelation. 121 

pies of their demonstration with such minute- 
ness of detail that the simplest and most un- 
lettered can walk in the footsteps of Jesus in 
demonstration. First, the law, Moses, and 
the prophets; then, the demonstration of 
Spirit, Jesus, and the Apostles ; and finally the 
statement of the principle and rules in Science 
and Health." This sentence seems as enig- 
matical as many of Mrs. Eddy's, and the writer 
will have to assume the responsibility of its 
grammar, rhetoric and teaching. One cannot 
easily believe that Christian Science leaders 
and writers have gone as far as this in their 
praise and defense of Science and Health and 
of Mrs. Eddy. From this we infer that Moses 
comes first, then the prophets, then Jesus, then 
the Apostles, and finally, and above all, Mrs. 
Eddy. The revelation of the ages is now 
closed! Why? Because Mrs. Eddy has 
finished it and said so. The last word has 
been spoken, the last truth uttered, the last 
revelation from heaven has been given. 
" Christian Science," Mrs. Eddy tells us, " is 
the Holy Spirit," and therefore we are in the 
dispensation of Christian Science, and God has 
turned the government of this age over to Mrs. 
Eddy and her discovery ! It is needless to re- 
bel, for above and about, in and without, is the 
Holy Spirit, Christian Science, and we must 
meekly submit! 

I wonder if this is the explanation of the 



122 Christian Science. 

peculiarities of this age and the conduct of the 
people? Possibly it is. Well, well, why did 
the people not see this long ago? Because 
Mrs. Eddy then was not sent and specially pre- 
pared by the All Wise One to give the revela- 
tion. 

We do not wonder that Mrs. Eddy took to 
the woods (Wilderness, Rev. 12: 6), the New 
Hampshire hills, when she felt the awful re- 
sponsibility resting upon her, having given the 
final revelation to the world. Well it is, that 
she gets away from men and women whom she 
has denuded, stripped and emptied of all ma- 
teriality, so that they feel like the thinnest 
spooks or ghosts that ever " came down the 
pike." It is best that when she drives out for 
recreation that the carriage should be kept 
closed and vulgar eyes should only have a 
glimpse of this God-chosen woman who pos- 
sesses supernatural power and authority to 
give a final revelation to mankind and heal 
their infirmities and diseases. It scarcely 
seems possible in this nineteenth century, and 
at the open door of the twentieth, that there 
are thousands of people who accept her teach- 
ings and claims and thus stultify their reason, 
common-sense and judgment. 

The presumption reaches its climax in Mrs. 
Eddy's claim that " Christian Science " is the 
Holy Spirit. Here is a sentence that may 
mean little or much as one may take it, and it is 



Mrs. Eddy and Revelation. 123 

like many other sayings of Mrs. Eddy : " O 
Father love, and Mother love, and Christ love, 
Trinity, God's womanhood has brought us all 
his true divinity." Does she mean that she is 
" God's womanhood " ? We think she does 
and here is a claim for her deification. When 
Mrs. Eddy dies there will be some people fool- 
ish enough to claim that she was God or at 
least a goddess and equal with God. This is 
the tendency among some of her followers to- 
day. We prophesy that there will be an at- 
tempt to spirit her body away and try to make 
it appear that she did not die but has gone into 
a higher state to carry on the work begun here. 
Here is some more mariolatry, Eddyism. O 
superstition ! 

The rumor is abroad now that Mrs. Eddy 
has had a stroke of paralysis, and her health is 
waning very rapidly. Her physicians give no 
hope of her ever being able to go about with- 
out assistance. She will die some of these 
days and be quietly buried and then deified 
by a lot of superstitious and deluded people. 
Oh, the folly and shame of it! 



124 Christian Science. 



CHAPTER IX. 

HEALING AND DOUBTING THE SENSES. 

I have touched on the principle of healing 
in a preceding chapter, but it might be best 
to answer a question that was asked me some 
time ago. It was this: " Can a lie cure? " I 
answered that perhaps it might. Licorice 
water has relieved dyspeptics because they 
thought they were taking iron and quassia, and 
through suggestion and expectation of getting 
well, recovered. Bread pills, supposed by the 
patient to be morphine pills, have cured pain in 
the same way. Doctors and observing persons 
know that there is a certain per cent, of dis- 
eases that are imaginary or largely so. and 
these diseases yield very quickly to the belief 
that the medicine administered will bring the 
cure, and the persons speedily recover. On the 
same principle so-called " Christian Science " 
practice has some success, because of the many 
nervous imaginary troubles and sicknesses that 
the people have, who come to be treated, ex- 
pecting in the majority of cases to be cured. 
Getting their minds off of their trouble and 
sickness means a cure to them. That is what 



Healing and Doubting the Senses. 125 

Mrs. Eddy and her followers have been doing. 
But there is no relation whatever between the 
false principles laid down in Mrs. Eddy's book, 
Science and Health, and the cure of the sick. 
Neither is there any sense nor reason in try- 
ing to make the people believe that they must 
accept those principles before they can be 
cured. The theology taught by Mrs. Eddy is 
entirely foreign from her teaching and practice 
of healing. 

Many persons have been healed who never 
heard of Mrs. Eddy's teachings, and many 
others have not been healed who have known, 
accepted and practised them. The action of 
the sub-conscious and the conscious mind is 
not dependent upon a certain kind of teach- 
ing but upon the reception of certain sugges- 
tions coming in a variety of forms. The de- 
termination of the will to carry out the sugges- 
tion or not carry it out produces great results. 
Let me illustrate this by several incidents. 1 

A business man in New York was told by 
his consulting physician that he could not live 
much longer ; he deliberately rose from his bed, 
put on his clothes, with the quiet remark that 
he had not time to die, went down to his office 
next day, and looked over his books. 

It is reported on very good authority that a 
woman out West, while she was dying, re- 
quested her husband to promise that he would 
never marry again. He hesitated, declared 



126 Christian Science. 

that he feared for his six motherless children ; 
whereupon the dying woman, looking him 
steadfastly in the eye, declared her purpose to 
live; and she did live. The Oneida Com- 
munity used to have a method of curing peo- 
ple by criticism. Two or three persons would 
come into the room of the sick, and make to 
each other all sorts of irritating remarks about 
the patient, criticising personal appearance, re- 
hearsing faults, even telling things that were 
not true. Such a proceeding was apt to anger 
the patient, make his blood circulate faster and 
sometimes led to recovery. 

During an earthquake some rheumatic pa- 
tients at the Hot Springs in Arkansas were 
cured. Under the excitement of the moment 
they ran from their rooms, though they had 
not walked for months. Such excitement of 
mind was just the thing needed to produce 
reaction and lead to cure. 

Napoleon I, to prove to his generals and 
surgeons that if one is determined not to take 
a disease he need not, visited various hospitals 
in Europe where were all sorts of contagious 
diseases, and remained unharmed. 

Dr. Kane, with a diseased heart, under the 
influence of mental activity, endured the hard- 
ships of an expedition to the North Pole, and 
General Gordon, who was so subject to angina 
'pectoris that he said of himself, " I have died 
suddenly over a hundred times," nevertheless 



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Healing and Doubting the Senses. 127 

proved to the world that a man with faith in 
his mission can rise above even such serious ail- 
ments of the flesh. 

The influence of mind over body is the com- 
mon source of healing and fortifying the body 
against disease. 

There is one thing which Mrs. Eddy and her 
followers do that is to be commended. They 
teach people to live on the positive side of 
their natures and not on the negative or pas- 
sive side. There is a great truth to be learned 
from this, and persons can often ward off as 
well as cure many ailments by mentally fortify- 
ing themselves against those things. Hence 
you find that denial comes out very promi- 
nently in curing disease. They teach persons 
to deny that they have pain, that they are sick, 
that they have a cold, that they are tired, etc., 
and with the person's own denial the " healer " 
adds hers and through suggestion and expec- 
tation the trouble or sickness leaves them and 
they are cured. But this principle of denial is 
not original with Mrs. Eddy as the principle of 
a positive assertion is not original with her. 
They grow out of the practice of hypnotism, 
mesmerism, etc., etc. 

I do not believe that Mrs. Eddy cured 
crushed bones, broken limbs, consumption in 
last stages and raised up the dying to life, etc., 
etc., when the persons were absent from her or 
by her side. 



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We must have better evidence than her word. 
It might be well to amplify one thought 
that has been suggested several times in this 
discussion, viz. : That Christian Scientists say 
that the senses are not to be trusted, ihey 
call them "five lies." They do not seem to 
understand that by denying the testimony of 
the senses they virtually rout ail science, com- 
mon sense, as well as human existence.^ 1 his 
would scarcely be worth mentioning if many 
persons were not being deceived by the persist- 
ent and confident assertions of its chief ad- 
vocates. If the senses are lies, why, in the 
name of reason, do these persons who claim 
to be followers of the Truth rely on the testi- 
mony of these very senses ? When they feel too 
warm they use a fan. When it rains they carry 
an umbrella. When hungry they eat, and 
some of them are very careful of their diet. 
Why are stones not as good food for them as 
bread or meat? Why is grass not as much 
relished by them as an orange or an apple? 
" The senses are lies," yet they seem exceed- 
ingly careful to rely upon them. When they 
desire to travel a long distance, they go to the 
station, buy their ticket, board the train for 
their destination. "If the senses are lies" 
why do they not get on the train by way of the 
cowcatcher, or a window, instead of going 
through the door? Why get on the train at 
all, why not sit down on an imaginary rail or 



Healing and Doubting the Senses. 129 

tie, and seem to go to an imaginary place, to 
influence the imagination of an imaginary sick 
spirit? I think that Mrs. Eddy can truly say 
there are things in my philosophy of which I 
never dreamed. These persons who give the 
lie to the senses, belie their own statements 
every hour of the day. 

Mrs. Eddy says on page 37, Science and 
Health, " five so-called senses," showing par- 
ticularly the estimate she puts upon them. If 
these so-called Christian Scientists are not daft 
they are deceivers either " deceiving or being 
deceived." 

The following poetry seems to me to illus- 
trate the fallacy of their creed: 

" She was a pretty Christian Scientist ; 

' There is nothing real,' said she, 
' Except the soul — my body is not real ' ; 

' And that's too bad,' thought he. 

' Pain is not real, — this hammock is not real, 
Wherein you think I sit.' 
Lo! As she spoke the hammock's fastening broke, 
And threw her out of it. 

Full hard she bumped her immaterial form, 

Who could but sympathize ? 
He begged that she would let a heretic 

Pretend to help her rise. 

Then oh ! The scorn of her rejection was 

A something wholly real. 
And oh ! the limp with which she walked away, 

Proclaimed that she could feel." 

The following simple incident will give in 
detail the dealings of a Christian Scientist, and 
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130 Christian Science. 

a person who came to be cured of pain. The 
strength of it is found in the truth which it 
tells in suggestive form. 

" A Christian Scientist, whose time was 
fully occupied in thinking about the unreality 
of disease, at $2 per think, once treated a 
highly unappreciative man for chronic nervous 
affection of a very painful character. Upon 
the glowing promises of a speedy recovery 
which the healer made, the man came every 
day to get his $2 worth of thought on the non- 
existence of his complaint, and all went well 
for several weeks. At the end of that time, 
the pain continuing, with a cheerful assiduity 
that could not be disregarded, the patient grew 
irestive and intimated that although he had 
paid out $40, there was not a cent's less pain 
than before. He also respectfully submitted 
that a clear statement of just about when the 
amelioration was expected would be highly 
acceptable to him and his family, who were 
cramped by the daily depletion of their funds. 
Then the Christian Scientist waxed wroth and 
said : ' O, you of little faith ! Know that you 
would already have been cured if you had be- 
lieved me when I told you that your pain was 
not real. Pain and suffering do not exist; 
they are merely phantasms of the brain. 
There is no such thing as matter,' continued 
he, with so much emphasis that it rattled some 
silver dollars in his pocket, ' none whatever ; 



Healing and Doubting the Senses. 131 

the only real thing is thought. All this is too 
subtle for your commonplace mind, and hence 
I can do nothing more for you ; you had better 
go and fill your coarse, unappreciative system 
with drugs.' Then a vision of $40 that had 
vanished, and of pain that had vanished not, 
came before the mind of that long-suffering 
man, and he arose, and he took the Christian 
Scientist, and he mopped the floor with him, 
smiting him sore upon the back, so that when 
he was through, congestion, abrasions, con- 
tusions, incipient ecchymoses and epistaxis 
were among the phenomena presented by his 
Christian countenance. ' There is no real suf- 
fering,' said the Unappreciative Man, with 
withering scorn. ' The bruises on your alleged 
head are entirely hypothetical; the choking I 
gave you was simply an idea of mine, and a 
devilish good idea, too; the pain which you 
feel is merely an intellectual fantasy, and your 
nose-bleed is only one of the ideal conceptions 
of the cerebral mass. Believe these things not 
to exist and they vanish. Good day, sir.' 
And the patient departed." 

Mark Twain also graphically illustrates the 
confidence that Christian Scientists have in 
their senses and the dependence they put on 
material dollars. He says : " The horse doc- 
tor charged me thirty kreutzers, and I paid 
him ; in fact, I doubled it and gave him a shill- 
ing. Mrs. Fuller brought in an itemized bill 



132 Christian Science. 

for a crate of broken bones mended in two 
hundred and thirty-four places — one dollar per 
fracture. 

" ' Nothing exists but Mind ? ' 

" ' Nothing,' she answered. ' All else is 
substanceless, all else is imaginary.' 

" I gave her an imaginary check, and now 
she is suing me for substantial dollars. It 
looks inconsistent." 

The Christian Scientists may say they be- 
lieve the senses are lies, but somehow they 
rely upon them in their practice as inevitably 
as do other common mortals. 

Then their presumption to say nothing of 
blasphemy ! Look at this—" Only believe that 
man is, always was, and always will be the 
child of God in health, and you can go out and 
heal the sick, cast out devils, or raise the dead." 
This is what one of the most prominent advo- 
cates of this so-called Science says in one of his 
lectures. This was given as the secret of 
Christ's success in working miracles, and he 
who believes as Christ did can do the works 
which he did. What supreme nonsense these 
people do get off, claiming that it is science. 
To give up our faith — rational, trusting and 
comforting — for these cunningly devised fa- 
bles which have not even the shadow of truth, 
is worse than the action of the fabled dog drop- 
ping his meat to plunge after a shadow in the 
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Objections to Christian Science. 133 



CHAPTER X. 

OBJECTIONS TO CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

There are certain objections to and tend- 
encies of Christian Science that ought to be 
candidly considered. Let us first consider the 
objections. 

1. Christian Science is the old discarded 
Oriental Pantheistic idealism that identifies 
God — if there is a God to that system of 
teaching — with nature, or, in its advanced 
crazy phase denies nature, matter, every- 
thing, except mind. It is Brahmanism in 
a woman's dress, trotted out before the 
world as a new exhibition of how " things 
are not what they seem.'' Thus the old has 
become the new, modern Christian Science wor- 
ships a heathenish, atheistic idea under the garb 
of Christianity. I don't say that Mrs. Eddy 
got her ideas from Brahmanism, for I do not 
think she knows enough to do that, but she has 
borrowed her ideas from Berkeley, Emerson, 
Blavatsky and some others of a visionary char- 
acter, and copied them from some fragmentary 
translations. I respect Emerson because he 



134 Christian Science. 

was seeking he knew not what, and died dis- 
appointed. But the people who steal his ideas 
have neither his wisdom nor his learning, and 
as a result, we have donkeys trying to wear the 
lion's skin. 

If space permitted we could give long cita- 
tions besides those already given to prove that 
the ideas advocated by Mrs. Eddy were pre- 
sented long ago, and subsequently championed 
by Bishop Berkeley, and incidentally by some 
transcendentalists since his day. But that 
philosophy was put to sleep also, but has since 
been awakened and reclothed. Only the flot- 
sam and jetsam of past teachings are gathered 
up and woven into a system that has all the 
objections, and very few of the good points of 
the systems of philosophy that have had some 
consistency at least. Swami Vivekenenda 
and others of his ilk go to Boston and unfold 
some of the teachings of old dead theories and 
worn-out beliefs, and immediately these things 
are gathered up and promulgated by a lot of 
women as the very truth of God and the hope 
of the world. In like manner Mrs. Eddy 
gathers a lot of stuff together from her read- 
ing, from Dr. Quimby and from other sources, 
and compiles — does not discover as she claims 
— a system that has not the consistency of ma- 
terialism, the fascination of Pantheism, the 
mysticism of Brahmanism, nor the seeming 
plausibility of idealism. She has sent forth a 



Objections to Christian Science. 135 

crude, unphilosophical and contradictory set 
of teachings which no sane man can harmonize 
and consistently accept without doing injustice 
to his reason and eventually landing in atheism 
or the insane asylum. 

We have some respect for the teachings of 
Henry Wood, Dr. Dresser, and Ralph Waldo 
Trine, all teaching that the universe must be 
interpreted idealistically and spiritually, and 
thus have led many persons to change their 
manner of thought as well as method, and have 
by suggestion lifted the burden of care and 
pain and sickness from many; but there is a 
consistency about their teachings which cannot 
be found in Mrs. Eddy's vague, nebulous, 
chaotic, and contradictory Science and Health. 
The pendulum of thought has to-day swung 
far away from Materialism, whose motto was, 
" Thought is the secretion of the brain," to the 
other extreme whose motto seems to be, 
" Brain is the production of the thought." 
There is a beautiful via media which common- 
sense, philosophy, reason and revelation advo- 
cate and accept, that is, both brain and thought 
have existence and are somehow intimately 
and causally related. Christian Scientists, men- 
tal healers and all people who are out of the 
insane asylums act upon this generally-accepted 
truth, and therefore act according to their 
reason and common sense. As we have said' 
previously, so we will say again, there is no 



136 Christian Science. 

vital connection between the Christian Science 
teaching and practice of healing. 

The consistent religious or theological logi- 
cal application of Mrs. Eddy's teaching leads to 
the rankest atheism; for if nature is God and 
nature is illusion, then we have the proposition 
that two things equal to the same thing are 
equal to each other: God = illusion which is the 
equivalent of nothing. 

Mrs. Eddy may condemn Pantheism, but in 
doing so she shows her lack of knowledge of 
that double-faced teaching — the materialistic 
and the idealistic. She means that she is op- 
posed to Materialistic Pantheism, but she ac- 
cepts the idealistic as any one can easily dis- 
cover who reads her book, Science and Health. 
She may do so ignorantly, but it is a fact never- 
theless. The teachings of Idealistic Panthe- 
ism are : God is impersonal, matter and sin, 
sickness and death are illusions; man is God. 
What are the teachings of Christian Science? 
God is not a person; matter and sin, sickness 
and death are illusions. Therefore, Christian 
Science is Idealistic Pantheism. 

2. Christian Science argues against praying 
audibly, and really makes mockery of the 
Lord's prayer in its paraphrases and interpre- 
tations of it. If there is no personal God it 
is no wonder that Mrs. Eddy argues against 
praying to him. Christian Scientists do not 
pray audibly except in repeating the " Lord's 



Objections to Christian Science. 137 

Prayer," and that they paraphrase so it does 
not mean what it says. (S. and H., p. 294.) 

Here is the prayer and the interpretation 
of it : 

Our Father who art in Heaven, 

Our Eternal Supreme Being all harmonious. 

Hallowed be Thy name. 

Forever glorious. 

Thy Kingdom come; 

Ever-present and omnipotent; 

Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 

Thy supremacy appears as matter disap- 
pears. 

Give us this day our daily bread, 

Thou givest to mortals the bread of life, 

And forgive us our debts as we forgive our 
debtors. 

Thy Truth destroys the claims of error. 

And lead us not into temptation but deliver 
us from evil, 

And led by the Spirit, mortals are delivered 
from sin, sickness and death, 

For Thine is the kingdom, the power and 
the glory forever. Amen. 

For Thou art Spirit, life, truth, love, and 
man is Thy likeness forever. So be it. 

Another paraphrase is also given by Chris- 
tian Scientists, possibly in order to add variety 
to their now heterogeneous system of teaching. 
Being a later version, too, it shows consider- 
able development : 



138 Christian Science. 

Our Father which art in heaven, 

Our Father and Mother God, all harmo- 
nious; 

Hallowed be Thy name, 

Adorable One, 

Thy kingdom come. 

The Kingdom is come, God is ever present 
and omnipotent. 

Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven, 

Enable its to know, — as in Heaven, so on 
earth, — God is All in all. 

Give us this day our daily bread ; 

Give tis grace for to-day; feed Thou the 
famished affections; 

And forgive us our debts as we forgive our 
debtors. 

And divine Love is reflected in love ; 

And lead us not into temptation but deliver 
us from evil; 

And leavcth us not in temptation but de- 
liver us from evil — sin, disease and death, 

For Thine is the Kingdom and the power 
and the glory forever. 

For God is omnipresent Good, Substance, 
Life, Truth, Love. 

All of which put together would give us, 
instead of the prayer we love so much and the 
model prayer of the ages, this medley : " Our 
eternal Supreme Being all harmonious, Our 
Father and Mother ; forever glorious, adorable 
One; ever present and omnipotent, thy king- 



Objections to Christian Science. 139 

dom is come, thy supremacy appears as matter 
disappears, enable us to know, — as in Heaven, 
sc on earth, — God is All in all ; Thou givest 
to mortals the bread of life, give us grace for 
to-day; feed thou the famished affections. 
Thy truth destroys the claims of error, and 
divine Love is reflected in love, and led by 
the Spirit (Christian Science) mortals are 
delivered from sickness, sin and death, and 
leaveth us not in temptation but delivereth us 
from evil. For thou art Spirit, life, truth, 
love, and man is thy likeness forever, for God 
is omnipresent, Good, substance, life, truth, 
love. So be it." 

We put the two paraphrases together in 
order to show the changes and yet the one 
thing of which Christian Scientists are guilty 
of doing, namely, using terms that are gen- 
erally used to express the existence of real 
things and at the same time denying the ex- 
istence of those things. More will be said of 
prayer further along. 

Every Scriptural doctrine is entirely changed 
or denied by these marvelously scientific (?) 
people. The atonement is nothing — the Bible 
does not mean what it says — Christ is only a 
man — a brother. Other denials by Mrs. Eddy 
can be seen in the preceding chapters. Yet 
these unchristian, unscientific people come at 
this late date with an old exploded system of 
Atheistic, or Pantheistic belief, for us to ac- 



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cept. It is Atheistic, for God to them is only 
an impersonal principle. He is called " im- 
personal, Life, Truth, Love." How in the 
name of reason can these things be predicated 
of a principle? 

Mrs. Eddy says (on page 168 of 5. and H.) : 
" Adhesion, Cohesion and Attraction are not 
forces of matter. They are properties of mind ; 
they belong to principle. They launched the 
earth in its orbit." Well, this is a science of 
mixture and tomfoolery! But then, the more 
mystery and less sense expressed by the lan- 
guage of this so-called Science, the better the 
followers of Airs. Eddy like it. 

For instance, we are told that only realities 
and ideas are divine mind. Any rational per- 
son knows, or at least ought to know, that 
reality and ideas cannot be predicated of mind 
in the same sense. 

The thing produced is different from the 
thing producing it. Ideas are produced by 
mind, mind is not produced by ideas. One 
is the cause, the other is the effect. Hence 
the cause and the effect cannot be the same 
thing. If realities and ideas are produced by 
divine mind, they are not the divine mind, but 
effects of its operations. Mrs. Eddy is either 
not smart enough to see her ridiculous con- 
tradictions or else seeing them she intention- 
ally or wilfully tries to deceive. If the former, 
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teacher; if the latter, she is a fraud. She can 
accept either horn of the dilemma! 

3. A third objection against this unscien- 
tific teaching of Mrs. Eddy may be presented 
in this form. She calls " Good God and God 
Good," thus putting quality for substance. 
She forgets, if she ever knew it, and if she did 
not know it she ought to take some pains to 
inform herself, that " good " is not a term 
which designates or names God in any other 
language than the Anglo-Saxon, and the prob- 
ability is that in this language it is only an acci- 
dental resemblance. In Dr. A. M. Fairbairn's 
Studies in the Philosophy of Religion and 
History in the chapter on " The Idea of God 
— its Genesis and Development," this is plainly 
brought out. If it were intentional instead of 
accidental in the Anglo-Saxon and all other 
languages that the word " good " defined God 
and the word God meant good it would not 
necessarily and logically follow that the quality 
would be the substance nor conversely. 

Mrs. Eddy, as has been said several times, 
denies all personality. Hence, God, Christ, 
the Holy Ghost, angels, men, have no personal 
existence. Man, she says, is only a reflection 
of a principle which is impersonal. These 
things she affirms partially from the principle 
that " God is good and good is God." 

4. A fourth objection is that Mrs. Eddy de- 
nies the plainest facts of existence in order to 



142 Christian Science. 

bolster up and make seemingly plausible her 
false teachings. 

"Ignorance," she claims, "is the cause of 
all ills." In this she also agrees with Buddha. 
But somehow Christian Science by the removal 
of ignorance, does not take away the ills of 
life, stings of conscience, penalty of guilt, and a 
thousand and one things that are ills indeed. 

She also says, " Man is incapable of sin, 
sickness and death, inasmuch as he derives his 
essence from God — hence man cannot depart 
from holiness. In Divine Science, God and 
man are inseparable as principle and idea." 
(S. and H., p. 541-2.) If the fallacies of 
these statements were not so plain that any 
one can easily see them, I would point them 
out. Let me call attention to one thing at 
least, viz. : There is no need of salvation sub- 
jectively or objectively, hence no necessity for 
the death of Christ nor his works. Hence 
" Whosoever calleth on the name of the Lord 
shall be saved " is untrue and a delusion, and 
the prayer that is made for help, blessing and 
salvation is a vain expenditure of breath. 

This teaching practically denies the true 
meaning of religion and its essential doctrines. 
Muller defines religion as " The communion 
of the soul with God as personal." This im- / 
plies the soul's need of God, the soul's aliena- 
tion from God, the soul's knowledge and 
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bless. Christian Science speaks of God as an 
impersonal, absolute, omniscient " It," that 
cannot love, hear or help. No wonder Chris- 
tian Scientists do not believe in audible prayer. 

Of prayer, Mrs. Eddy says : " Prayer to a 
personal God is a hindrance." " Audible 
prayers may lead us into temptation." " Pe- 
titioning a personal deity is a miscomprehen- 
sion of the source of all good and blessedness, 
so it cannot be beneficial" (p. 170). The 
beautiful, the sublime, the endearing Throne 
of grace, where we may come with our peti- 
tions and where we may lay down our bur- 
dens at the feet of " Our Father who is in 
heaven," and be assured that he bears our 
prayers and helps us carry our burdens is far 
from the teaching of Christian Scientists. 

Then, too, Mrs. Eddy's teaching practically 
declares that the teaching of the greatest litera- 
ture of the world is woefully wrong. Shake- 
speare in Richard III., and Macbeth, and else- 
where ; Victor Hugo in Les Miserables; Haw- 
thorne in The Scarlet Letter; Thackeray in 
Vanity Fair; Eugene Sue in The Wandering 
7ezu; Bulwer Lytton in Morning and Night; 
Sienkiewicz in Quo Vadis are all mistaken, 
for they believed and taught the reality of sin 
and that a holy person (not a principle) pun- 
ishes sin and loves and helps and forgives 
the sinner if he repents. Augustine in his 
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and agony with sin; Paul in his confession 
" I see another law in my members, warring 
against the law of my mind, and bringing me 
into captivity to the law of sin which is in my 
members. O, wretched man that I am ! who 
shall deliver me from this body of death"; 
the testimony of John, "If we say that we 
have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth 
is not in us. If we confess our sins he is faith- 
ful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse 
us from all unrighteousness; " — these men and 
hundreds and thousands of others were mis- 
taken for " there is no sin." The Bible that 
never calls God " It " but invariably uses the 
personal pronoun is wrong, if Mrs. Eddy's 
teaching is to be accepted. There is always 
danger ahead for people who deny the ordi- 
nary common sense experiences and the testi- 
mony of thousands that have had the same ex- 
periences. 

The plainest facts are denied. Since the 
senses lie and are not to be trusted according 
to this foolishness, when a person is cold or 
very warm, he is mistaken and can easily pro- 
duce the opposite feeling if he just believes 
right. When hungry, if he denies it, he shall 
be satisfied as though he had eaten a full meal. 
According to this teaching every time Chris- 
tian Scientists eat they are either voluntarily 
perpetuating an illusion or unconsciously de- 
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could add illustration after illustration to show- 
how they thus contradict themselves in teach- 
ing and practice. 

5. Delusions are deliberately and inten- 
tionally substituted for reason and the expe- 
riences of all normally constituted people. For 
instance, Christian Scientists say there is no 
matter, and that matter is an " erroneous belief 
of the mortal mind." They tell us also that 
mortal mind is nothing and you therefore have 
according to their reasoning a false belief of 
one nothing concerning another nothing which 
equals nothing. My, what a philosophy this 
is, how it does get rid of things and how it 
does play fast and loose with nothing! The 
whole system of Christian Science teaching is 
founded largely upon " Nothing," and Mrs. 
Eddy's book, Science and Health, is " noth- 
ing " and the whole universe is " nothing," 
hence there is an infinite and eternal 
"nothing." Do Christian Scientists prac- 
tise their own teachings? No, they are 
very careful to act as though they person- 
ally believed there were many things in this 
world. They eat, drink, sleep, dress, talk, feel 
pain, carry umbrellas when it rains, wear rub- 
bers when it snows, read, buy, sell, take 
money for treatments, make and sell spoons, 
publish books and magazines and tracts. They 
seem to do everything that people do ordi- 
narily, and why they try to practise a mental 
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146 Christian Science. 

heresy and delusion upon their own and other 
minds is hard to understand. 

Suppose Mrs. Eddy's teachings were ac- 
cepted and practised universally? Business 
would cease, schools would close, ships would 
fade into phantoms at the wharves, buildings 
would crumble, railroads and cars would re- 
main unused, people would starve to death 
and this world would be a charnel house, and 
the people would look thinner and more peaked 
and melancholy than some Christian Scientists 
with whom we are acquainted. To carry out 
the teachings of Mrs. Eddy to their logical 
conclusion we should have a great madhouse, 
and the only hope of getting out of it would 
be to have immaterial hands take our bodies of 
nothingness and grind them to more nothing- 
ness or somehow hurl them into nothingness 
to be nothing forever. 

There is a comedy in this teaching that takes 
the form of caricature and mockery. This has 
been indicated. We have read in the daily 
papers that only recently several persons have 
gone insane over this teaching. They are 
probably now in their right spiritual condition, 
from a Christian Science point of view. 
Truly, Mrs. Eddy can say, " There are more 
things in my philosophy than I ever dreamed 
of." 

What shall we say to these words of Mrs. 
Eddy's, " When God impelled me to set a price 



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on my instruction in Christian Science Mind 
Healing - , I could think of no financial equiva- 
lent for an impartation of a knowledge of that 
divine power which heals; but I was led to 
name three hundred dollars as the price for 
each pupil in one course of lessons at my col- 
lege, — a startling sum for tuition lasting barely 
three weeks. This amount greatly troubled 
me. (We think it would.) I shrank from 
asking it (not very far), but was finally led, 
by a strange Providence (it must have been 
'strange'} to accept this fee." She claims 
that God has shown her the wisdom of her 
decisions " in multitudinous ways." It was 
probably " the god of this world " and not our 
heavenly Father. There are some things in 
this world that have a mighty material look — 
the almighty dollar — for Mrs. Eddy. 

It seems almost impossible that thoughtful 
people could be caught with these teachings of 
Mrs. Eddy, but many of them are being taken 
in their own craftiness for many different rea- 
sons which time and space will not permit us 
now to discuss. 

The after-results in their lives will be mani- 
fested sooner or later. In many they will be 
led into atheism like a young man of whom 
we recently read. He said : " The Christian 
Scientist began by thoroughly persuading me 
that God is not personal, but is pure ' principle.' 
After some months I accepted that, and then I 



148 Christian Science. 

said to myself: 'What is a principle?' Does 
it have real existence? Is it an entity or real- 
ity ? I soon saw that a ' principle ' is simply 
an idea of my own mind and when the Scien- 
tist dissolved my God into principle, I ceased 
to believe in any God whatever. I now believe 
simply in myself." 

Let any person follow these instructions 
by Mrs. Eddy to their logical conclusions and 
we shall see them sooner or later in the condi- 
tion of believing every sane person to be insane. 
These are only a few of many other teachings 
that are contradictory in her book. 

Here are a few more of her teachings : 
She says : " Heat and cold are products of 
the mind " (p. 373). That is to say, we suffer 
from the heat only because we imagine it is 
warm. We are cold only because we think we 
are cold. But I will warrant you that the 
coal bills of the scientists of our cities have 
been none the less in the winter for all that. 
Again, Mrs. Eddy says : " Food neither 
strengthens nor weakens the body" (p. 118). 
" Food does not affect the real existence of 
man." " The less we know or think about 
hygiene the less we are predisposed to sick- 
ness " (pp. 387-388). She admits, however, 
that it would be " foolish to stop eating," and I 
have no doubt that the most advanced and 
healthy " scientist " will continue to crave his 
three square meals a day. He will if he has 



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any sense. Let me call your attention to some 
more gems from this great teacher : " If your 
patient believes in taking cold, mentally con- 
vince him that matter cannot take cold, and 
that thought governs this liability. If gri]e'f 
causes suffering, convince the sufferer that sor- 
row is not the master of joy, and that he should 
rejoice always" (p. 375). "If half the at- 
tention given to hygiene were given to the 
study of Christian Science and its elevation 
of thought, this alone would usher in the mil- 
lennium " (p. 380). 

If things are unreal, then how can there be 
any honor between people in this world ? The 
man who agreed to sell another a tract of 
land and turned about and sold it to another 
man for $300 more, justified his course for 
not keeping his word by saying " There isn't 
anything that's real." All I need say is that 
the man who broke his word and made that 
statement was and is a Christian Scientist. 

Take away reason, common-sense and the re- 
sults of observation and experience, and no one 
can predict the serious results in lives of per- 
sons thus left to the caprice of whim and im- 
pulse. 

Dr. Holmes well says of Berkeley, " He was 
an illustrious man, but he held two very odd 
opinions; that tar-water was everything, and 
that the material universe was nothing." 
Berkeley believed that tar-water was a specific 



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for nearly all the ills of man. Mrs. Eddy is 
just about as consistent, excepting she does not 
believe in tar-water. 

6. Another objection is that all the cures 
affected by Christian Scientists can be ex- 
plained upon natural principles, viz.: by 
hypnotism, thought-transference, anticipation 
and change of dominant ideas or suggestions. 
Let me illustrate partially by giving a specimen 
treatment : " I said to him mentally : ' You 
have no disease ; what you call your disease is 
a fixed mode of thought arising from the ab- 
sence of positive belief in absolute good. Be 
stronger,' I said, ' you must believe in absolute 
good; I am looking at you, and I see you a 
beautiful, strong spirit, perfectly sound. What 
makes you think yourself diseased? You are 
not diseased ; the shadow of a doubt is reflected 
en your feet, but it has no real existence. 
There, look down yourself and see that it is 
gone. Why, it was a mere negation, and the 
place where you located it now shows for itself 
as sound as the rest of your body. Don't you 
know that imperfection is impossible to that 
beautiful creature, your real self? Since there 
is no evil in all the universe, and since man is 
the highest expression of good amidst ubiqui- 
tous Good, how can you be diseased? You 
are not diseased. There is not an angel in all 
the spheres sounder or more divine than you.' 
Then I spoke out aloud : ' There now,' I said, 



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' you won't have that pain again.' 'As I said 
it there was a surge of conviction through me 
that seemed to act on the blood-vessels of my 
body and made me tingle all over." — Helen 
Williams. This is hypnotism. 

Every experience and cure claimed by Chris- 
tian Scientists can be duplicated by as marvel- 
lous experiences and cures effected by Hypno- 
tizers, and by persons who have had the privi- 
lege of investigating psychical phenomena. 
Knowing this to be the case how shallow and 
contemptible are the claims of these imposters. 

Many cures more marvellous than Christian 
Scientists and faith healers and others have 
wrought, have been effected by Charcot, De 
Luys, Bernheim, Moll and others. They do 
not teach heresy in order to effect these cures, 
but only use the principles that have been dis- 
covered and suggestions that the sub-conscious 
mind will receive and use to cure disease or 
change the mental processes and thus bring re- 
lief to the afflicted. 

We can easily prove that there is no par- 
ticular virtue in Christian Science teaching 
and in Dowie's pretensions. Do you ask 
how ? In this way. If cures proved the cor- 
rectness of teachings, then Spiritualists, Mental 
Healers, Christian Scientists, Faith Curists, 
Indian Medicine Men, Powwowers, Voodoo- 
ists, the Fakirs of India, Vitopaths, Mes- 
merists, Occultists, animal magnetists, and 



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any and every pretender, quack and fraud, 
all hold correct views as to the nature, treat- 
ment and cure of disease, for they all cure some 
people. Dowie says there is a physical body 
and it is sometimes sick because the devil gets 
hold of it and God heals disease in answer to 
prayer, and destroys the power of the devil. 
Mrs. Eddy says there is no physical body and 
there is no sickness and hence there is only 
spiritual existence and that is in perfect 
health. If Dowie's cures prove that his teach- 
ings are correct, Mrs. Eddy's which directly 
contradict them cannot be correct. If Mrs. 
Eddy's teachings are true, then Dowie's can- 
not be. As to cures they are about equal in 
number and kind. Powwowers by incanta- 
tions and magical motions claim to cure cer- 
tain diseases. Other schools professing to ef- 
fect cures claim that their teachings are correct 
and true. Then the teachings of Christian 
Science and Dowieism are not correct and true. 
They all cure some diseases. Some of these 
theories and teachings are in many respects 
fundamentally opposed to each other, there- 
fore they cannot be correct and true. The 
truth of it is that there is very little, if any, 
vital connection between the teachings and ef- 
forts to heal in a number of classes referred to 
above and in Christian Science particularly. 

The reader will permit me to repeat one car- 
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our discussion, viz. : That the sub-conscious 
mind being controlled by suggestion and con- 
trolling the functions of the body, when the 
suggestion is utilized there are certain remedial 
effects which may result in a complete recovery 
from disease. This is the secret of all cures. 
Time and space will not permit the recital 
of many cases where so-called Christian 
Science has not only failed to cure, or only to 
affect the persons temporarily, or through 
neglect of means have permitted the persons 
to die who otherwise now might be well and 
happy. Here is one case of multitudes that 
might be given : " A Brooklyn woman treated 
by her physician for consumption placed herself 
under the influence of Christian Science, and 
after being treated and ' lectured ' by a Chris- 
tian Scientist, came to the conclusion that noth- 
ing was the matter with her, and became happy 
in the belief that she was perfectly well. A 
few weeks afterwards she died, and the phy- 
sician who had been discharged when she placed 
herself with the Christian Scientist said : ' I 
have fifty patients apparently in the soundest 
health to-day in Florida and Southern Cali- 
fornia, who were further gone in consumption 
than she was when they went there. I wanted 
her to go there, but she wouldn't take the ad- 
vice. She's only another victim to Christian 
Science. That is all.' But we trust it is not 
' all,' but that in the interests of the safety 



154 Christian Science. 

of society the law will interfere and prohibit 
the practice of this latest school, which, how- 
ever sincerely its tenets may be held by its 
disciples, is peopling heaven with saints before 
their earthly work is done." 

" A returned sea-captain in Connecticut 
took seventeen treatments from a Christian 
Scientist, and obeyed her directions explicitly, 
but fell into such a state that for weeks he 
hung by the slenderest thread between life and 
death, and was saved only through the instru- 
mentality of the most skilful physicians and 
nurses." 

" A child in the same place was treated for 
pneumonia and died for want of proper medi- 
cal care. Three other cases of death, under 
the treatment of Christian Science, occurred 
in the same place, in every one of which, it 
was hastened or occasioned by lack of medical 
skill. It is needless to say, that Christian 
Science is at a discount in that community." 

" A young man in Boston was far gone with 
consumption. His physician said, with the 
greatest care and freedom from exposure he 
might live a year. He applied to a healer, who 
assured him that he need not exercise any care, 
but to do whatever he felt disposed. He went 
out on a stormy day, took cold and died within 
a week." 

" A man in Washington, who had long suf- 
fered with chronic heart disease and sympa- 



Objections to Christian Science. 155 

thetic stomach trouble, was able to live only 
by using the utmost care in his diet. He ap- 
plied to a science healer and was assured that 
he might eat anything he pleased. He fol- 
lowed the advice and died in a few days." 

" A young man in Kansas was suffering 
from earache. He went to a Christian Scien- 
tist, was treated and assured that he was well. 
The pain increased, he received more treat- 
ments and more assurances. Finally, when 
the suffering became unbearable, he applied 
to a physician, who, after an examination, said, 
' that an abscess had formed in the ear, and 
that he had been sent for too late.' His words 
proved true, and the young man died in ter- 
rible agony of body and mind." 

The newspapers have published during the 
last year or two a number of deaths due to 
the neglect of reasonable means by Christian 
Scientists. 

Dr. L. A. Crandell cites a few cases that 
have come under his observation and knowl- 
edge, and being such excellent illustrations of 
the failure of Christian Science to heal I in- 
corporate them here. 

" Some years ago Mrs. A., a member of the 
church of which I was then pastor, suffered 
greatly from a disease of the eyes. Not being 
benefitted appreciably by the treatment given 
by local physicians, she went to Boston and 
was treated by a Christian Scientist. (My 



156 Christian Science. 

impression is that it was by Mrs. Eddy her- 
self.) Meeting her soon after her return 
home, I asked concerning her eyes, and she 
said that they were perfectly well. At that 
very time her eyes were exceedingly inflamed, 
and it was apparently only by the greatest 
effort that she was able to keep them open. 
The tears caused by the attempt to use her 
eyes, ran down her face as she talked with me." 

" Miss E. had an internal cancer. Medical 
treatment proving ineffective, she became a 
Christian Scientist and put herself under 
treatment. During more than two years she 
grew steadily worse, but as steadily denied 
that she was ill or that she suffered any pain. 
Even when she had gotten so weak that she 
could not arise from her chair, she persisted in 
denying that she was sick. At last the pain be- 
came greater than she could bear, and, a short 
time before her death, she requested that an 
opiate be given her, saying to a friend, ' I have 
tried to be faithful to the teachings of Science, 
but no one knows what I have suffered.' For 
this lapse from the faith she was severely up- 
braided by the healer under whose care she 
had been. 

" Mrs. F. is a Christian Scientist, and had 
been a reader among them. She suffered 
from an abdominal tumor, for which she was 
treated by healers of her own faith. The 
tumor continuing to increase in size, she put 



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herself under the care of a surgeon, urging 
upon him the necessity for secrecy, had the 
tumor removed by means of the knife, and re- 
covered her health. Upon her return from the 
hospital where the operation was performed, 
she sat in a Christian Science service and 
heard her cure instanced by her fellow Scien- 
tists as another demonstration of the truth of 
that system, never hinting that she had been 
cured by a surgical operation." 

A public offer was made to Mrs. Eddy some 
years ago of $1,000 if she or any one of her 
students would reset certain dislocations, and 
$2,000 if she would give sight to a person 
born blind. (See Chapter VI., p. 92.) She was 
so afraid that the person or persons would 
lose their money that she would not ac- 
cept the offer. This is probable in view 
of her love for and methods of securing 
the material dollars. She said if she would 
accept the offer the man would lose his money, 
as she had done more marvellous things fifteen 
years before. She also says, " At present I 
am in another department of Christian work, 
where there shall no signs be given them." 
Nay, verily! This statement is in keeping 
with many others that have no evidence prov- 
ing them and never will have. The person 
making the offer need never fear that Mrs. 
Eddy or any of her followers will ever accept 
it.. 



158 Christian Science. 

7. Another objection is found in the fact 
that Christian Science cannot be a science and 
a revelation. Science deals with the classifica- 
tions of truth discovered by experience, ex- 
periment and reason, whilst revelation comes 
to the soul directly from God without human 
effort. Possibly some of Mrs. Eddy's Science 
and Health has come from her cogitations and 
quiet musings, but the most of it has come 
from Dr. P. P. Quimby, Swedenborg, Theoso- 
phy, Spiritism, and fragments of Brahmanism, 
Buddhism, Trancendentalism, Idealism, and 
much false philosophy. She pleads that it was 
revealed to her, and thus to the superstitious 
and credulous the appeal comes with some 
force, because they know nothing or at least 
very little of the discoveries of the principles 
of the New Psychology and Science and their 
application. 

8. Christian Science does not deal with 
but denies the great facts of experience and 
common sense. It gives no explanation of 
matter, simply denies its existence. So of sin, 
sickness, etc. Because Christian Scientists do 
not know what these things are intellectually 
there is no reason to deny their existence any 
more than if because one cannot see his brains 
he ought to deny that he has any. 

9. The logical conclusion of Christian 
Science is to contradict all facts, experiences 
and reasoning and to deny all intuitions and 



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make this world a great phantasm of unreal 
things. In this respect, as one has said : " Its 
philosophy is dangerous, its Theology is 
Heresy, and its therapeutics is quackery," and 
let me add, the whole teaching is a denial of 
common sense and reason and, therefore, a 
lie. 



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CHAPTER XI. 

THE TENDENCIES OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

I. Self-delusion is one tendency that fre- 
quently has a very sad ending, viz. : — Insanity. 
When the evidence and testimony of the senses 
are denied as well as the facts of consciousness, 
a person then is open to all kinds of mental 
vagaries and illusions. These are the first 
steps in insanity. Here is one case of many 
that might be cited. " Beatrice, Neb., Jan- 
uary 21. — A pitiable case of insanity, charge- 
able to Christian Science, was brought to the 
attention of the county Insanity Board here 
to-day. The patient, Mrs. Rose Skinner, has 
become violently insane through Christian 
Science teachings, and will have to be sent to 
an asylum. She is the mother of three bright 
children, and in her ravings insists that her 
real spirit is in the wrong body, and that the 
spirit that is in her wants to kill her children. 
One point she remembers, even while insane, 
which is that she is not to take any medicine. 
Mrs. Skinner is the daughter of wealthy and 
influential people, and the matter has caused 
much comment." 



Tendencies of Christian Science. 161 

We have had through medical records and 
newspapers many similar reports. It would 
be an eye-opener to Mrs. Eddy and her coterie 
of teachers and followers to have the special 
reports from many Insane Asylums and pri- 
vate Sanitariums in this nation and see how 
many inmates there are who believed in and 
practised the teachings of Christian Science 
and by virtue of self-delusion are now under 
strict surveillance. It is no more trjan can be 
reasonably expected from such teaching, and 
in the years to come the numbers will be greatly 
augmented by virtue of the spreading of this 
teaching and its reception. 

2. Rejection of the Bible is another serious 
tendency. The Bible is accepted as an alle- 
gory and as having no authority; as a book 
to be cautiously read and not to be accepted, 
except in a peculiar and mystical sense. That 
is the reason for that wonderful glossary to 
be found in Science and Health. The substi- 
tution for the Bible is Mrs. Eddy's book, and 
there is a tacit acceptance by many Christian 
Scientists of the statement made some time 
ago by one of their prominent representatives 
when he said, " If the book called the Bible 
were blotted out of existence and we had 
Science and Health, it would be all that we 
should need." If the truth were fully known 
this view probably has a far-reaching accept- 
ance among these unchristian and unscientific 
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162 Christian Science. 

people. In line with that is an incident show- 
ing a tendency growing out of the rejection 
of the Bible and Christ and the deification of 
Mrs. Eddy and her book. A prominent Chris- 
tian Scientist of New York city said to one of 
the leading pastors of that city : " Mrs. Eddy 
is the Way to God." He replied : " I thought 
Christ was the Way." "But Christ, you 
know, is dead and Mrs. Eddy is now alive," 
was her startling answer. " But," he said, 
" Mrs. Eddy must soon die and then who will 
be the way? " " Well, we do not expect that 
Mrs. Eddy will— what you call die; we ex- 
pect she will— dissolve— into— the life of the 
Universe." 

3. Another tendency is to continually ne- 
glect medical aid. In Des Moines, Iowa, not 
long ago, three children died of diphtheria. 
Christian Science practitioners undertook to 
cure them. The neighbors heard the facts 
about the neglect of the people to secure com- 
petent medical aid and advice. They ordered 
the Christian Scientists to leave the place and 
ordered a physician to attend a fourth child 
who had the same disease. The child recov- 
ered as the other three who died might have 
recovered had they had a competent physician. 
I could prolong this chapter unduly by the cita- 
tion of cases where neglect of competent medi- 
cal aid and the so-called treatment of these 
cranks have resulted in death. 






Tendencies of Christian Science. 163 

Take the case of Mr. Harold Frederic. He 
was taken sick with pneumonia. Some 
Christian Scientists got the privilege of 
" treating " him. His death caused a great 
stir in England. The Christian Scientists were 
indicted by an English jury. They were not 
convicted at the subsequent trial, but ought to 
have been, and that for manslaughter. About 
the time of Mr. Frederic's death the papers re- 
ported the deaths of Messrs. Kershaw of 
Tacoma, and McDowell of Cincinnati, and 
Mrs. Brown of Washington ; the first of pneu- 
monia, the second of typhoid fever, the last of 
an unmentioned disease. These persons were 
£11 treated by Christian Scientists. These are 
only a few of many cases that have been re- 
ported from time to time in the newspapers 
from different parts of the country. There 
are difficulties in the way of convicting these 
people of neglect and criminal ignorance and 
carelessness, so that if people will be fools 
enough to go to the " Witch of Endor " and 
her relatives they will have to suffer the loss 
or the consequences therefor. 

4. A fourth tendency of this teaching is 
the disregard for morals and a moral life. 
If a person cannot do wrong, cannot sin, ac- 
cording to this teaching, then of course, hav- 
ing no standard of right or wrong, what be- 
comes of morals and right-living? If Mrs. 
Eddy's teachings are followed to their logical 



164 Christian Science. 

conclusion we shall find that she makes no dis- 
tinction between virtue and vice, between mor- 
ality and immorality, between good and evil. 
We may lie, for there is no falsehood ; we may 
practise impurity, for there is no vice ; we may 
drink intoxicants to excess, for there is no 
drunkenness ; we may defy all of God's laws, 
for there is no disease ; we may destroy life, 
for there is no death. 

This is the kind of life that leads to free 
love, the breaking up of families, the sanc- 
tioning of suicide, the practice of immorality 
and the abrogation of all restraints. Hence 
we find in Boston and other places where Chris- 
tian Science has existed for a long time that 
the trend of this teaching and practice is to- 
wards Theosophy and the Occult. Any one 
may see this tendency by looking over the book 
advertisements in their chief magazine and by 
talking with many who stand high in the mys- 
teries of Christian Science. God is only a 
principle and not a person, and therefore can- 
not take cognizance of the actions of man- 
kind. Nothing is real that we see, hence we 
can destroy what is only seeming. Moral law 
does not exist, as that can only apply to in- 
dividuals in the manifestation of character, and 
human relationship is as the mingling of 
drops of water, making all people one. These 
logical deductions will become more apparent 
in a few years, because restraints will vanish 



Tendencies of Christian Science. 165 

with the abrogation of the authority of God's 
word. This tendency it is said by a careful ob- 
server is growing rapidly. 

A certain writer has truthfully arraigned 
Christian Science in the following language : 

Christian Science is both a foul imposture 
and a heresy ominous of danger to the church 
of Christ and of peril to immortal souls. It 
is a so-called science which ignores God-given 
facts; a philosophy which stultifies God-given 
reason; a religion which thrusts aside a God- 
given revelation; a theology which abolishes 
God while pretending to deify mortal man; 
a Christianity which, after dishonoring Christ 
by every possible denial of his word, presents 
him to us as a phantom Saviour who disap- 
peared more than eighteen centuries ago — a 
Saviour who never did, and never can, save a 
soul, and who, having gone from earth, will 
never again return to bless his waiting- and 
longing church. In a word, it is a philosophy 
without wisdom, a science without facts, a re- 
ligion without rational worship, a theology 
without a God, and a Christianity without a 
Christ." 

Any one to accept this unscientific and un- 
christian system of teaching has to stultify his 
reason and deny the simplest and most ordi- 
nary experiences of life. Whoever accepts 
this teaching must either believe or act a lie. 
If the former he must believe that things are 



166 Christian Science. 

not what they seem, and if the latter then he 
must act as though things are real. Chris- 
tian Scientists deny that matter is an actual 
existence, but they act as though it were. How 
much more reasonable it is to accept the ex- 
istence of matter and act accordingly than to 
belie our senses and deal falsely with our rea- 
son. When Christian Scientists believe as 
they practise then will people cease to find 
fault with their theories. Their practice is 
more reasonable than their teachings. It is 
safer to follow what they do than to follow 
what they say. 

5. Another serious tendency of this teach- 
ing is to assail the value of means and discard 
honest effort in trying to secure legitimate re- 
sults. 

If all hygienic laws, medicines, and common- 
sense use of means are to be neglected because 
Christian Scientists say health can be restored 
by denying disease, then any one who thinks 
can see the terrible tendency and influence of 
such a course. 

It would be, virtually, advocating a lazy, neg- 
ligent and reckless life which is contrary to 
philosophy, Scripture and common sense. God 
has sanctioned belief in and use of instrumen- 
talities and second causes. In the spiritual 
and material domains how numerous are the 
helps and ministeries set apart for the main- 
tenance and sustenance of the soul and body. 



Tendencies of Christian Science. 167 

As it would be presumptuous, visionary and 
hazardous to dispense with these things, os- 
tensibly that the arm of flesh may not be relied 
on, no less so would it be hazardous and pre- 
sumptuous to deny the value of means to sup- 
port and constantly maintain life by so-called 
" Christian Science." 

We commend to Christian Scientists, " heal- 
ers " and to their followers and to their pa- 
tients the following good advice given in Ec- 
clesiasticus, one of the Apocryphal books of 
the Old Testament. — " The Lord hath created 
medicines out of the earth ; and he that is wise 
will not abhor them. My son, in thy sickness 
be not negligent ; but pray unto the Lord, and 
he will make thee whole. Leave off from sin, 
and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy 
heart from all wickedness. Then give place to 
the physician, for the Lord hath created him : 
let him not go from thee for thou hast need of 
him. There is a time when in their hands 
there is good success. For they shall also 
pray unto the Lord, that he would prosper 
that which they give for ease and to prolong 
life." 

In conclusion, I desire to say that this 
piratical, heterogeneous and false teaching 
called " Christian Science " will have its little 
day, and then like many other " fads " will 
pass away, to be forgotten by its followers, 
who will laugh at themselves, unless their ex- 



168 Christian Science. 

perience has been too disastrous, because they 
were foolish enough to advocate such ridicu- 
lous nonsense! It is a very serious thing to 
" turn the truth of God into a lie " which 
these people, I fear, are doing, if their teachings 
are to be believed. Their followers would do 
well to heed the Apostle Paul's warnings " to 
refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exer- 
cise themselves into godliness," and " avoid 
profane and vain babblings and oppositions 
of science falsely so called, which some pro- 
fessing have erred concerning the faith." 



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Atherly, Robert Drew. 
Ayr, Landis. 
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Buffington, T. P. 
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Cary, Katherine Miles. 
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Collins, Wilkie. 
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Craddock, Florence N. 
Dean, Howard. 

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Duxbury, C. Richmond, Mrs. 
Edwards, Almus Hugh. 
Elshemus, L. M. 
Emmel, May C. 
Field, Elaine L. 
Flattery, M. Douglas. 
Fradenburgh, J. N. 
French, Minnie Reid. 
Fox, Page. 
Garduw, Etta M. 



Gardner, W. H. 
Gordon, A. M. R. 
Graham, Marie. 
Green, Benjamin E. 
Greenleaf, Sue. 
Greer, Julian. 
Gregory, Daniel Seelye. 
Hamilton, Sam A. 
Hammond, John Hays. 
Harker, Charles R. 
Harkins, James W., J*. 
Hartman, L. B. 
Hartshorn, Mary A. 
Hartt, Irene Widdemer. 
Hobson, Margaret. 
Holmes, Herbert. 
Hopkins, Alphonso Alva. 
Howard, Lady Constance. 
Hussey, Cyrus M. 
Hutchinson, Warren B. 
Jennings, Edwin B. 
Johnson, Stanley Edwards. 
Johnston, Elizabeth Bryant. 
Jokai, Maurus. 
Kankakee, James. 
Kaven, E. Thomas. 
Kearney, Belle. 
Kellogg, J. 
Kemble, W. Fretz. 
Lawrence, William V. 
Lay, Wiliiam. 
Lee, J. F. 

Lindsay, Clarence M. 

Loring, Mattie Batch. 

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Maclcod, Warren M. 

Mankowski, De, Mary. 

Marie, Rose. 

Martin, Amarala. 

Martyn, Carlos. 

Merimee, Prosper. 

Middleton, E. 

Miller, Andrew J. 

Miller, Lischen M. 

Milroy, Elizabeth. 

Morris, James Edwin, Mrs. 

Morris, Moses D. 

Muir, Law. 

Munn, Charles Clark. 

Munyon, Dora Harvey. 

Muzzy, Alice M. 

Myth, M. Y. T. H. 

Napoliello, R. R. 

Niall, Mical Ui. 

NicholL Edith M. 

Ousley, Clarence. 

Pacheco, Mary. 

Palier, Emile A. 

Pierson, Alice. 

Pomeroy, Helen. 

Preston, South G. 

Prhchard, Agnes Camplejohn. 

Raymond, Walter Marion. 

RideaL Charles F. 

Riggs, Arthur Stanley. 

Ripley, N. B. 

Rogers, Charlotte Boardman. 

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